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NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
Much like the inside of an
operating room, in the clean
room at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., engineers worked metic ... > full story
Scientists Shape First Global Topographic Map of Saturn's Moon Titan
Scientists have created the
first global topographic map
of Saturn's moon Titan,
giving researchers a
valuable tool for learning
more about one of the most
... > full story
Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planetary Debris: Signs of Earth-Like Planets Found
Astronomers have found signs
of Earth-like planets in an
unlikely place: the
atmospheres of a pair of
burnt-out stars in a nearby
... > full story
Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas
The Herschel space
observatory has made
detailed observations of
surprisingly hot gas that
may be orbiting or falling
towards the supermassive
black hole lurking at the
... > full story
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Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
May 6, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants ... > full story -
Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
May 3, 2013 — These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded ... > full story -
Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story -
Entire Galaxies Feel the Heat from Newborn Stars: Bursts of Star Birth Can Curtail Future Galaxy Growth
April 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. These energetic events can affect galactic gas at distances ... > full story -
Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact
April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Unique Cluster: One of the Hidden 15
April 19, 2013 — Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the ... > full story -
For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision
April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story -
Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?
April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story -
NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It
April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story -
Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc
April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story
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