Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan Seen in Unprecedented Detail
As one of the coldest places in the solar system, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is also one of the most dynamic. A new collection of…
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Stars of the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy
Images in visible and infrared light taken with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys show the Antlia Dwarf galaxy that was…
Dark Matter Core of Abell 520 Differs from Bullet Cluster
Using gravitational lensing, a team of scientists believed they have observed dark matter in Abell 520. The dark matter is not behaving as predicted and…
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…
A Decade Worth of Discovery from THEMIS
Ten years and counting. The Thermal Emission Imaging System onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has taken nearly 500,000 images and circled Mars nearly 45,000 times…
New Images of Orion Nebula Show Young Stars Hidden in Gas and Dust Clouds
European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have provided researchers with new images of the Orion nebula that revealed a host…
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…
Researchers Use Computer Simulations to Explain Acceleration of Electrons in Earth’s Magnetotail
Researchers at MIT used new data from computer simulations to prove their initially proposed theory explaining the large-scale acceleration of electrons in Earth’s magnetotail. The…
Plankton-Fueled Agulhas Current Ocean Eddy Is 93 Miles Wide
Deep below the ocean’s surface, huge eddies are often formed. The depths have their own kinds of weather systems. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo…
NASA Launched Rocket into Aurora Borealis
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot (14-meter) rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in…
Hubble Telescope Image of Eta Carinae
At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it…
Research Papers Explore Titan’s Atmosphere
Recently published research papers reveal new details of how Saturn’s moon Titan shifts with the seasons and throughout the day. The research is based on…
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’s Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered buckyballs in a solid form around a pair of stars called “XX Ophiuchi,” 6,500 light-years from…
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….
NASA Engineers Test J-2X Powerpack
The first test was conducted yesterday on the J-2X engine powerpack by engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. This initial test was the first time…
Researchers Discover First Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have found an intermediate-mass black hole surrounded by a cluster of young, blue stars. This is the first finding…
NASA Requests $17.7 Billion Budget for Fiscal Year 2013
NASA has requested a $17.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2013 which includes $4 billion for space operations, $4 billion for exploration activities in the…