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An Anarchic Region of Star Formation
May 2, 2013 — The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that ... > full story -
Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life
May 1, 2013 — In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ... > full story -
The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-Ton Bullet
May 1, 2013 — NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, ... > full story -
Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies
April 30, 2013 — Scientists have completed a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, ... > full story -
Deep, Detailed Image of Distant Universe
April 30, 2013 — Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for ... > full story -
Mars Opportunity Rover in Standby as Commanding Moratorium Ends
April 30, 2013 — During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun -- a phase called solar conjunction -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered a type of standby ... > 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 -
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
April 30, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, ... > full story -
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story -
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
April 25, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only ... > full story
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