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What Is Creating Gullies on Giant Asteroid Vesta?
December 6, 2012 In a preliminary analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission, scientists have spotted intriguing gullies that sculpt the walls of geologically young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. The ... > full story -
Image of the Carina Nebula Marks Inauguration of VLT Survey Telescope
December 6, 2012 A spectacular new image of the star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory and released on the occasion of the ... > full story -
Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
December 6, 2012 During the 10 minutes before the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere to deliver the rover Curiosity to the surface, the spacecraft shed its cruise stage, which had ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bullseye
December 6, 2012 In Hubble’s image, NGC 922 clearly reveals itself not to be a normal spiral galaxy. The spiral arms are disrupted, a stream of stars extends out towards the top of the image, and a bright ring ... > full story -
NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
December 5, 2012 Scientists have unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and NOAA satellite, shows the glow of ... > full story -
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Listen Up, Doc: Empathy Raises Patients' Pain Tolerance
December 3, 2012 A doctor-patient relationship built on trust and empathy doesn't just put patients at ease -- it actually changes the brain's response to stress and increases pain tolerance, according to new ... > full story -
Swirling Storms on Saturn
December 3, 2012 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions. This ... > full story -
Surprising Results from Study of Non-Epileptic Seizures
December 3, 2012 A neurologist is reporting surprising results of a study of patients who experience both epileptic and non-epileptic ... > full story -
Men and Women Explore the Visual World Differently
November 30, 2012 New research has found that men and women see things ... > full story -
Digital Portrait for Grapes Indicates Their Ripeness
November 30, 2012 Researchers have developed a technique for estimating grape composition and variety using computer imaging. They have also put forward an index for identifying the ripeness of seeds without the need ... > full story
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