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Dark Energy Survey Set to Seek out Supernovae
July 2, 2013 — The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10 billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ... > full story -
Cluster Spacecraft Detects Elusive Space Wind
July 2, 2013 — A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago. By analysing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster ... > full story -
Astronomer Uncovers the Hidden Identity of an Exoplanet
July 1, 2013 — Hovering about 70 light-years from Earth –- that's "next door" by astronomical standards –– is a star astronomers call HD 97658, which is almost bright enough to see with the naked ... > full story -
Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets
July 1, 2013 — A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ... > full story -
NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story -
Intergalactic Magnifying Glasses Could Help Astronomers Map Galaxy Centers
June 30, 2013 — Astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant ... > full story -
Rocket-Launched Camera Reveals Highways and Sparkles in the Solar Atmosphere
June 30, 2013 — Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The team discovered ... > full story -
The Quantum Secret to Alcohol Reactions in Space
June 30, 2013 — Chemists have discovered that an 'impossible' reaction at cold temperatures actually occurs with vigor, which could change our understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed in ... > full story -
NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized
June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story -
Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
June 27, 2013 — Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of ... > full story
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