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Scientists Discover How the World's Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt
February 7, 2013 — Antarctica's Don Juan Pond exists only because its high salinity -- the highest of any body of water on the planet -- keeps it from freezing. New researcher finds that water sucked out of the air by ... > full story -
The Last Big Bump Before a Supernova Explodes
February 6, 2013 — Astronomers have found the first causal evidence that massive stars shed huge amounts of material in a "penultimate outburst" before they finally detonate as Type IIn supernovae. After characterizing ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets May Be Next Door, Kepler Data Suggest
February 6, 2013 — Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common ... > full story -
The Wings of the Seagull Nebula
February 6, 2013 — A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a section of a cloud of dust and glowing gas called the Seagull Nebula. These wispy red clouds form part of the "wings" of the celestial bird ... > full story -
NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON
February 5, 2013 — NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The images were taken by the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution Imager over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, ... > full story -
WISE Space Telescope Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword
February 5, 2013 — The tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or ... > full story -
Does Probability Come from Quantum Physics?
February 5, 2013 — Ever since Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles. But a new article ... > full story -
Hubble Catches the Moment the Lights Went out
February 5, 2013 — The further away you look, the further back in time you see. Astronomers use this fact to study the evolution of the Universe by looking at nearby and more distant galaxies and comparing their ... > full story -
A Spiral Galaxy With a Secret
February 5, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope -- with a little help from an amateur astronomer -- has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million ... > full story -
Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts
February 5, 2013 — In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely ... > full story
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