Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet Slightly Larger Than Our Moon
Researchers working on NASA’s Kepler mission have discovered a new planetary system called Kepler-37. The new planetary system is about 210 light-years from Earth in…
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Curiosity Rover Image Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
New images from NASA’s Curiosity rover confirm that it has successfully drilled and collected the first-ever rock sample from the interior of a rock on…
New VISTA Image of Stellar Nursery NGC 6357
Using infrared data from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, this new image from the ESO reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC…
Researchers Detected a Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A
By observing Alpha Centauri A in far-infrared light with ESA’s Herschel space observatory and comparing the results with computer models of stellar atmospheres, researchers have…
Cassini Detects Particles Being Accelerated to Ultra-High Energies
Similar to the particle acceleration that takes place around supernovas, observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies by an…
NASA’s THEMIS Mission Tracks Space Weather & the Magnetosphere
Launched in 2007, the THEMIS mission has helped highlight a number of crucial details about what causes space weather events and has dramatically improved our…
The Search for Exoplanets Intensifies
Aided by technology, astronomers at the University of Chicago search for far-off planets like Earth. When astronomers discovered planet GJ 1214b circling a star more…
Presence of Water in the Primary Crust Indicates That the Early Moon Was Wet
New findings from the University of Michigan indicate that the early moon was wet and that water there was not substantially lost during the moon’s…
Astrophysicists Confirm Cosmic Rays Come From Exploding Stars
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers confirmed that cosmic rays do indeed come from exploding supernovas. A new study confirms what scientists…
Hubble Views a Pair of Interacting Galaxies Known As IC 2184
Composed of visible and infrared observations from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, this Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as…
Image of Magnetic Loops on the Sun
This NASA image of the day was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows an image of magnetic loops on the sun. Flux Ropes…
Solving the Mystery of Saturn’s Moonlets
Scientists at Loughborough University have revealed a new computer model that could help solve the mystery of Saturn’s moonlets. Research by Loughborough University physicists casts…
Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 Makes a Preview Appearance
A new set of animated images show asteroid 2012 DA14 as it nears its record-close approach to Earth on February 15, 2013. Like trailers for…
Spitzer Views Star-Forming Region W5
This NASA image of the day shows the star-forming region called W5. Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA’s Spitzer…
Supernova Remnants Accelerate Cosmic Rays
A newly published study provides the first clear-cut evidence that supernova remnants accelerate cosmic rays to incredible speeds. A new study using observations from NASA’s…
Study Models Conditions Near to the Surface of a White Dwarf Star
In a newly published study, a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge recreated the conditions found on the surface of a white dwarf,…
Data Suggests Rare Explosion Created Milky Way’s Youngest Black Hole
By tracing the distribution and amounts of different elements in the stellar debris field, scientists were able to compare Chandra data to theoretical models of…
JPL Selected to Lead U.S. Science Team for Euclid Mission
JPL has been selected by the European Space Agency to lead the U.S. science team for the Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to probe…