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A Hubble View of NGC 1579: The Trifid of the North
June 7, 2013 — Unlike the venomous fictional plants that share its name, the Trifid of the North, otherwise known as the Northern Trifid or NGC 1579, poses no threat to your vision. The nebula's moniker is inspired ... > full story -
Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers
June 7, 2013 — Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. The destination, called ... > full story -
Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon
June 7, 2013 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The ... > full story -
Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets
June 6, 2013 — Dust clouds around stars are thought to hide many undiscovered planets with conditions suitable for life, but observations have been hampered by the fact that only the brightest such clouds can be ... > full story -
2011 Draconid Meteor Shower Deposited a Ton of Meteoritic Material on Earth
June 6, 2013 — About a ton of material coming from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was deposited in the Earth's atmosphere on October 8th and 9th, 2011 during one of the most intense showers of shooting starts in the ... > full story -
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point
June 6, 2013 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer. Curiosity is finishing investigations in an ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan
June 6, 2013 — Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have confirmed the presence of a population of complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, that later evolve ... > full story -
Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often)
June 6, 2013 — Stars have an alluring pull on planets, especially those in a class called hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that form farther from their stars before migrating inward and heating up. Now, a new ... > full story -
NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure
June 6, 2013 — After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on ... > full story -
NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometer
June 5, 2013 — A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the ... > full story
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