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'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
Astronomers, conducting the
broadest survey to date of
galaxies from about 800
million years after the Big
Bang, have found 22 early
galaxies and confirmed the
age of one by its
... > full story
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System
Before our planets found
their way to the stable
orbits they circle in today,
they wiggled and jostled
about like unsettled
... > full story
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera
installed on NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope during
Servicing Mission 4 in May
has delivered the most
detailed view of star birth
... > full story
MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mercury
A NASA spacecraft gliding
over the battered surface of
Mercury for the second time
this year has revealed more
previously unseen real
estate on the innermost
... > full story
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Rapid Supernova Could Be New Class Of Exploding Star
November 6, 2009 — Astronomers were looking through seven-year-old data when they chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid ... > full story -
The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars
November 6, 2009 — The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March ... > full story -
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
November 5, 2009 — Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery resolves a ten-year mystery surrounding this object. In Earth's time frame, ... > full story -
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
November 4, 2009 — Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most ... > full story -
Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
November 4, 2009 — Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, ... > full story -
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
November 3, 2009 — A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled. These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support ... > full story -
Adapting Space-industry Technology To Treat Breast Cancer
November 3, 2009 — Researchers are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by breast cancer ... > full story -
Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-year-old Mystery
November 3, 2009 — Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays -- subatomic particles that zip through space at nearly the speed of light. The most energetic cosmic rays hit with the punch ... > full story -
Navy Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
November 3, 2009 — Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the Naval ... > full story -
'Ultra-primitive' Particles Found In Comet Dust
November 2, 2009 — Dust samples collected from the stratosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, scientists report. The dust includes presolar grains and material from ... > full story
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