Cassini Helps Explain the Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
A new four minute ScienceCast video and new Cassini RADAR Team study examine the surface of Titan, trying to explain the mystery of the missing…
A new four minute ScienceCast video and new Cassini RADAR Team study examine the surface of Titan, trying to explain the mystery of the missing…
Hubble captured this image of NGC 4866, a lenticular galaxy situated roughly 80 million light-years from Earth. The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is the…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured an image of a coronal hole hovering over the sun’s north pole. The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric…
In two new studies, NASA’s Curiosity Rover reveals details about the Martian atmosphere and clues about how Mars may have lost much of its original…
As the search for habitable planets continues, astronomers detail how they determine which exoplanets have all the right conditions for life to thrive. There is…
This three minute video from NASA details and explains the journey of sungrazing comets, like comet ISON, as they round the sun. Comet ISON, which…
While analyzing Neptune photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an astronomer discovered a new moon orbiting Neptune. Designated S/2004 N 1, the new moon…
A newly released Hubble image shows the remains of a star known as planetary nebula IC 289. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the…
A new model developed by scientists at NASA shows that eccentric rings in debris disks can form without planets. Many young stars known to host…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope, astronomers studied NGC 2392 and two other planetary nebulas with hot gas in their center,…
Using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Hinode spacecraft, researchers reveal that the Sun’s atmosphere has a magnetic field about ten times weaker…
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have revealed that the actual visible-light color of exoplanet HD 189733b is deep blue. Astronomers making visible-light…
In a newly published study, NASA IBEX data reveals the never before seen boundaries of the tail of the heliosphere, the heliotail. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary…
While researchers continue to analyze Kepler data, a team of engineers continues to work on reaction wheel performance assessment and recovery plans for the spacecraft….
This short time-lapse video shows the comet ISON as it zooms toward the Sun at 48,000 mph (77,000 kph).. This July Fourth the solar system…
This Hubble image shows spiral galaxies PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, also known as galaxy pair MRK 1034. Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The…
Astronomers used the Very Large Array radio telescopes to track the motions of the gas near radio Source I in the Orion Nebula for over…
A team of scientists used a sounding rocket to launch NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, capturing images of the solar corona five times sharper than…