IBEX Measures Particles Outside Our Solar System
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) studies the outer boundaries of the solar system and measures samples of particles from where the solar wind collides with…
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Researchers Believe Molecular Hydrogen Has Role in Formation and Evolution of Sunspots
Researchers used the Facility Infrared Spectropolarimeter (FIRS) at the National Solar Observatory’s Dunn Solar Telescope to analyze sunspot emergence and cooling. Their research leads them…
Orion Space Capsule Manned Flight Delayed until 2021
NASA had intended to rebuild its human spaceflight program with the Orion capsule in 2014, with a manned launch in 2016, but it’s been announced…
NASA’s THEMIS Satellite Records Effect of Geomagnetic Storms on Radiation Belts
Scientists are studying the Van Allen Radiation belts to gain a better understanding about the radiation encircling the Earth. It was once feared that these…
Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt’s Charged Electrons Heading for Space Not Surface
The increase in solar activity has become quite obvious on Earth, thanks to the increase in auroras caused by geomagnetic storms, but while astronomers had…
Bus-Sized Asteroid Barely Misses Earth
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth in what’s been described as a near miss. However, experts weren’t concerned that it…
MIT Researchers Examine New Lunar Dynamo Evidence
New research by MIT scientists on lunar rock suggests that the moon once had a molten, convecting core of liquid metal. They believe this dynamo…
Goddard’s Space Weather Laboratory to Use ‘Ensemble Forecasting’
Just in time for the peak in solar activity, Goddard’s Space Weather Laboratory will be fully functional in the next twenty months and will allow…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers 11 New Extrasolar Systems with 26 Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems, with an additional 26 confirmed planets, which actually doubles the number of verified Kepler planets and…
Scientists Believe Water Ice May Exist on the Giant Asteroid Vesta
Due to extreme cold and little sunlight near the north and south poles, scientists believe the giant asteroid Vesta could contain water ice that has…
NASA’s NuSTAR is One Step Closer to Launching
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Lasers Mimic Supernova to Explain Cosmic Magnetic Fields
Scientists are using powerful lasers to mimic the effects of supernovae, which are helping to reveal how the magnetic fields of galaxies may have been…
Researchers Plan to Explore Titan with a Nuclear Powered Drone
Brigham Young University geologist Jani Radebaugh, alongside researchers from NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory, has put forth a plan that would send a done…
NOAA Solar Eruption Classifications
The sun erupted on January 22-23, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, captured here in a movie by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The flare…
Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Measures the Universe’s Expansion and Dark Energy
One of nature’s biggest mysteries, dark energy, is being explored thanks to a deceptively simple tool that David Schlegel came up with. 2,200 aluminum plates,…
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Continues Research at Greeley Haven
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA’s enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially…
Solar Flare Causes Powerful Solar Radiation Storm
The most powerful solar radiation storm since 2005 was caused by a solar energetic particle event concurrent with an M8.7 class flare and a coronal…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Shows Dune Patterns of Titan
Images taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show variations in the sizes of dunes found on Saturn’s moon Titan. Scientists believe these variations may be a…
