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Andromeda Wants You! Astronomers Ask Public to Find Star Clusters in Hubble Images
December 5, 2012 Astronomers are seeking volunteers to explore the galaxy next door, Andromeda. The Andromeda Project will use people power to examine thousands of Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy to ... > full story -
New NASA Mars Rover to Launch in 2020
December 4, 2012 Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. This ... > full story -
NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim
December 4, 2012 The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a ... > full story -
Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Icier Than Thought
December 4, 2012 Scientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the internally generated heat that keeps ... > full story -
Census of the Invisible Universe Reveals Extraordinary High Star-Formation Rates Across History of the Universe
December 4, 2012 By combining the observing powers of ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, ... > full story -
Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites
December 4, 2012 Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its ... > full story -
NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
December 3, 2012 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar ... > full story -
Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars With SAM
December 3, 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in November with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument ... > full story -
Search for Life Suggests Planetary Systems More Habitable Than Ours
December 3, 2012 Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than ... > full story -
Complex Chemistry Within the Martian Soil: No Definitive Detection of Organics Yet
December 3, 2012 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and ... > full story
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