NASA’s Juno Spacecraft is Halfway to Jupiter
Bound for Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point on August 12, 2013 and should arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Once there,…
Bound for Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point on August 12, 2013 and should arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Once there,…
The latest ScienceCast video explores the attraction astronomers have to class of exoplanets called “hot Jupiters.” ScienceCasts: The Strange Attraction of Hot Jupiters An exotic…
In this newly released image Hubble views a young star being born in the gas, dust, and ices of the dark cloud LDN 43. Don’t…
According to data from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip. Watch this new four minute ScienceCast video to learn more…
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft captures a color image of the Hovnatanian crater, an elliptical crater on Mercury. This color image, taken on May 1, 2013 by…
Astronomers in the SEEDS Project have discovered the least massive planet ever detected around a star like the sun. A so-called “second Jupiter,” planet GJ…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new type of stellar explosion called a kilonova. Kilonovas are about 1,000 times brighter than a nova, but they…
Using data from Spitzer and WISE, scientists reveal in a new study that massive galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a young stellar system that “blinks” every 93 days. This is the fourth example of…
Using data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published study reveals that the intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that…
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory has revealed the first exoplanet caught passing in front of its…
On the nights of August 12th and 13th, astronomers will have the opportunity to watch the Perseid meteor shower, a meteor shower that has recently…
This Hubble image reveals the mysterious structure of galaxy NGC 524, which is formed by the remaining gas surrounding the galaxy’s central bulge. This striking…
In a newly published study, astronomers used data from NEOWISE to reveal the true identity of centaurs that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune,…
Using data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes, scientists have discovered how electrons in the heart of the Van Allen Radiation Belts surrounding Earth are accelerated…
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) took its first images of the Sun, revealing the mysterious lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The moment when…
By developing a new model to investigate the effects of meltwater on Greenland glaciers, researchers discovered that meltwater warms the ice sheet, which then softens,…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers observed gas emissions from Comet ISON, estimating that ISON is emitting about 1 million kilograms of what is most…