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Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters'
September 7, 2011 — An international team of astronomers has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" -- massive planets in solar systems far away from our ... > full story -
First Nuclear Power Plants for Settlements on the Moon and Mars
August 28, 2011 — The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space, according ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Solve 40-Year-Old Mariner 5 Solar Wind Problem: Turbulence Doesn’t Go With the Flow
August 26, 2011 — Astrophysicists have resolved a 40-year-old problem with observations of turbulence in the solar wind first made by the probe Mariner 5. The research resolves an issue with what is by far the largest ... > full story -
Earth-Bound Asteroids Come from Stony Asteroids, New Studies Confirm
August 25, 2011 — Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust ... > full story -
How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star
August 24, 2011 — Astronomers have provided new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA's Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to intense and unusual ... > full story -
NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration
August 24, 2011 — NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space ... > full story -
NASA's WISE Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars
August 24, 2011 — Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hunted ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White, a Distant Dwarf Planet
August 22, 2011 — Astronomers have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 -- nicknamed Snow White -- is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing ... > full story -
New Method Detects Emerging Sunspots Deep Inside the Sun, Provides Warning of Dangerous Solar Flares
August 19, 2011 — Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. But researchers have now developed a way to detect incipient sunspots ... > full story -
New Images Reveal Structures of the Solar Wind as It Travels Toward and Impacts Earth
August 18, 2011 — Using data collected by NASA's STEREO spacecraft, researchers have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma and other particles from a coronal mass ejection traveled 93 ... > full story
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