Data Suggests the Possible Presence of Ice at Shackleton Crater
Using a laser altimeter on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, a team of scientists have mapped Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, finding possible evidence for…
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SDO’s HD Video of 2012 Venus Transit
In case you missed it, here is video footage of the 2012 Venus transit from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the…
X-Ray Echoes Demonstrate the Reality of Relativistic Reverberation
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers looked for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
Magnetometers Ready for NASA’s MAVEN Mission
In preparation for the 2013 launch, scientists and engineers at NASA worked diligently to complete the magnetometers on schedule for the MAVEN mission. The magnetometers…
Schumann Resonance Could Help Reveal the Solar System’s Origins
In 2011 researchers realized that they could use NASA’s Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the Air Force’s Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite to detect Schumann…
A Closer Look at Titan’s Chemical Production
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on Saturn’s moon Titan and predicted how long Titan’s chemical factory…
NASA Captures Image of M1 Coronal Mass Ejection
As major solar activity continues, NASA captured an image and video of the latest class M1 coronal mass ejection. A beautiful prominence eruption producing a…
Videos Covering Heliophysics Explain the Science of the Sun
Five Newly released videos from NASA help describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth, while covering the…
New Image of an M7.9 Flare from Active Region 1429
NASA released a new image of a solar flare from active region 1429. On March 13, 2012, the sun erupted with an M7.9-class flare that…
Inclined Orbit to Improve Space Telescope Sensitivity
Dust and light from the zodiacal cloud in our solar system interferes with infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations. By placing a space telescope on an…
Thermonuclear Behavior of Neutron Star Bridges Gap Between Theory and Observation
Over the period of roughly one month, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observed some 400 thermonuclear explosions on the surface of the neutron star…
Amino Acids Found in Meteorites that Experienced High Temperatures
While analyzing samples from carbon-rich meteorites with minerals that indicated they had experienced high temperatures, scientists found amino acids, which gives support to the theory…
NASA Continues to Monitor Solar Flares
As NASA continues to give updates on the solar flares this week, they also put together a nice summary of space weather and the effects…
HFAs and Their Effect on Venus
Scientists are studying hot flow anomalies, HFAs, and their effect on the planet Venus. Unlike Earth, Venus is without a magnetic field and although the…
NASA Study Reveals Multi-Year Ice Declining Faster than Perennial Ice that Surrounds It
Research complied from NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by senior research scientist Josefino Comiso shows how multi-year…
Ultra-Fast Outflows are Common Features of Black-Hole-Powered Galaxies
Researchers targeted 42 nearby active galaxies and used data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite to show…
NuSTAR’s 9,000 Mirrors are Only 200 Microns Thick
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has a total of 9,000 individual mirror segments that are only 200 microns thick and will be the first…
NASA LRO Spacecraft Reveals Geological Activity on the Moon’s Surface
Researchers recently examined the new high-resolution images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and found that “recent” geologic activity has occurred on the moon….