Flower-Shaped Starshade Spacecraft to Acquire Images of Earth-Like Planets
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a spacecraft, which looks like a giant sunflower, to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. This…
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Spitzer Images Create 360-Degree View of the Milky Way
Using more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers created a new 360-degree mosaic of…
NASA Image of the Day – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Viewed by Voyager I
This NASA image of the day shows Jupiter’s Great Red Spot assembled from three black and white negatives from NASA’s Voyager 1. At about 89,000…
WISE Survey Finds No Evidence of “Planet X”
Using data from NASA’s WISE exporter, two newly published studies reveal thousands of new stars, but no evidence of “planet X.” After searching hundreds of…
New Models Better Describe How Planet-Forming Material Around Stars is Stirred Up
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have developed a new theory explaining the mystery of planet-forming disks that circle the young stars. Astronomers…
NASA’s Cassini to Conduct Its 100th Flyby of the Saturn Moon Titan
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is ready to conduct its 100th flyby of Titan. Ten years ago, we knew Titan as a fuzzy orange ball about the…
NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Views Its First Comet
NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft has spotted its first comet. Officially named “C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE),” the comet was about 143 million miles (230 million kilometers) from Earth…
Scientists Discover Evidence of Water in Martian Meteorite
NASA scientists have discovered evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite known as Yamato 000593. A team of scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space…
New ScienceCast Video Explores the 715 New Worlds Confirmed by Kepler
A new three minute ScienceCast video explores the 715 new planets that were just verified by NASA’s Kepler mission. ScienceCasts: A Sudden Multiplication of Planets…
New Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14
Using the Deep Space Network antenna, scientists have gathered new radar data on asteroid 2006 DP14 that show the physical characteristics of the asteroid and…
NuSTAR Reveals How Stars Explode
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array untangles the mysteries of what happens to stars when they explode. One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars…
Scientists Produce Geologic Map of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Using data from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and Galileo orbiter, scientists have produced the first global geologic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. More…
Curiosity Rover Drives Through and Past “Dingo Gap” Inside Gale Crater
This new series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Rover driving through and past “Dingo Gap” inside Gale Crater. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its…
New NASA Video Shows a 360-Degree View of Saturn’s Auroras
A new video from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show a 360-degree view of Saturn’s auroras. NASA trained several pairs of eyes on…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Examines a New Impact Crater
This new image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater about 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter that appeared at some time between…
Cassini Views Saturn’s Hexagonal Shaped Jet Stream
This newly released image from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s hexagonal shaped jet stream. Just as Saturn’s famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet’s…
NASA’s Opportunity Reveals That Mars Could Have Supported Life
New findings from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveal that Mars had an ancient wet environment that was milder and could have supported life. Some…
Rock “Appears” in Front of Opportunity Rover
This before and after view from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock that scientists believe was likely knocked into position from one of…