Three Smallest Exoplanets Found by NASA Kepler Astronomers
Kepler’s mission is to find potentially habitable planets around Earth size and smaller in a target region of the Milk Way galaxy. It’s had quite…
Kepler’s mission is to find potentially habitable planets around Earth size and smaller in a target region of the Milk Way galaxy. It’s had quite…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…
The largest galaxy cluster in the distant universe has been found and nicknamed “El Gordo,” which is much easier to say than the official name…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
A European Space Agency-led mission in combination with the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal new images of the Large and Small…
In an effort to learn how their technology will react to the hellish surface conditions on Venus, NASA engineers will put together a 12-ton toxic…
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned to Hawaii to study the Kilauea volcano. Mounted under NASA’s…
NASA’s RXTE has made many important scientific observations over its 16-year history and on January 4th, 2012 it sent its last observation to the ground…
As testing continues on the next deep space exploration vehicle, Orion received its final drop test in what was a series of worst-case landing scenarios…
On January 11, 2012, NASA is planning to conduct the biggest trajectory maneuver for the Science Laboratory Spacecraft on its mission to Mars. By precisely…
It’s amazing to think that a NASA telescope mounted in a specially modified Boeing 747SP jet can look into the heart of a nebula where…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken its first close-up images of the asteroid Vesta, revealing tons of new detail. Vesta is located in the asteroid belt…
Comet Lovejoy, discovered a few weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit several…
Kirtland’s warblers (named after Jared P. Kirtland) are an endangered species of birds that, like so many humans, spend summer in North America and winter…
After over three decades in space, Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System and head into the uncharted territory of the Milky Way….
As if we needed any reminders, it just illustrates how the Hubble Space Telescope has been one of the most successful scientific endeavors ever undertaken…
Italian toads can apparently sense earthquakes like the earthquake that struck L’Aquila on April 6th, 2009. We know this because Dr. Rachel Grant of the…
The internet is a great thing for folks who really like to buy stuff. You can find anything. Even NASA parts, including rockets. In July…