Spitzer and WISE Discover Coldest Known Brown Dwarf
NASA’s WISE and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the coldest known brown dwarf, which is located 7.2 light-years away. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)…
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Researchers Discover the First Exomoon Candidate
By using gravitational microlensing and taking advantage of chance alignments between stars, an international team of researchers has spotted the first signs of an exomoon….
Curiosity Image Captures Mysterious Bright Spot
A newly released Curiosity image shows a bright spot on the surface of Mars, which was possibly caused by the sun glinting off a rock…
NASA Detects Ocean Inside Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
New data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network provide the first geophysical measurements of the internal structure of Enceladus, suggesting that it harbors…
New Data Helps Astronomers Piece Together the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of supermassive black holes. How do you grow a supermassive black…
Cassini Views Four Moons of Saturn
Cassini views Saturn’s moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus. Two pairs of moons make a rare joint appearance. The F ring’s shepherd moons, Prometheus and…
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…
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 Years…
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…