Combined Image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101, From Four of NASA’s Space Telescopes
Located in the constellation of Ursa Major, 21 million light-years from Earth, the Pinwheel Galaxy is roughly 70 percent larger than our own Milky Way…
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Mission Engineers Prepare for Curiosity’s Landing on Mars
Mission engineers continue to ready for the August Curiosity landing inside Gale Crater and the critical seven minute period when Curiosity must decelerate from about…
Help NASA Test-Drive Curiosity Interactive Experience
With NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity set to land in early August, NASA is finalizing a game development tool that will offer a 3D interactive experience…
Cassini Images Show Signs That the Seasons Are Turning On Saturn’s Moon Titan
New images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show signs that the seasons are turning on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show a…
First Images From Project 1640
After six years of development, Project 1640 is underway and using new technology on the Palomar Observatory’s 200-inch Hale telescope near San Diego, California to…
Flame Nebula Burns Bright in New WISE Image
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer’s four infrared bands, scientists have released a new image showing a vast cloud of gas and dust…
Cassini Data Reveals Likely Subsurface Ocean on Titan
By using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure variations in the gravitational pull of Titan, researchers were able to determine Titan’s internal structure, finding…
Heat from Within the Planet Powers Saturn’s Jet Streams
Using automated cloud tracking software to analyze the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012, scientists have…
NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter Out of Precautionary ‘Safe Mode’
After experiencing an issue with one of its primary reaction wheels on June 8, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has now been taken out of “safe…
Ancient Antarctica Was Much Warmer and Wetter Than Previously Suspected
In an effort to better understand what the future of climate change may look like, a team of scientists examined plant leaf wax remnants in…
Voyager May Become the First Human-Made Object to Enter Interstellar Space
Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecraft are now over 9 billion miles away from the sun. With new data indicating that the Voyager 1 has…
Cassini Detects Methane Lakes on Titan
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
Ultrafine Loops of Solar Material Scattered on the Sun’s Surface
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Fermi Detects the Highest-Energy Light Ever Associated With an Eruption on the Sun
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently detected a solar flare that produced enough gamma rays to briefly make the sun the brightest object in the…
NuSTAR Set to Study Some of the Most Energetic Phenomena in the Universe
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black…
Study Finds a Mixture of Both Deep and Shallow Heating on Io
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…
WISE Observations Provide Crucial Information on Brown Dwarfs
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers recently discovered a small group of brown dwarfs located less than 30 light years away from the sun….
Patterns of Light Appear to be From the First Stars and Galaxies
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…