Earth-sized planet found just outside solar system
October 16, 2012 by Seth Borenstein EnlargeThis artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri...
View ArticleIs NASA about to unveil plans for manned moon mission?
by Robert T. Gonzalez at http://io9.com/ Suit up, people — word is we’re heading back to the Moon. According to space policy expert John Logsdon, there’s a decent chance NASA has already cleared plans...
View ArticleNASA’s Cassini Sees Burp at Saturn After Large Storm
These red, orange and green clouds (false color) in Saturn’s northern hemisphere indicate the tail end of a massive storm that started in December 2010. Even after visible signs of the storm started to...
View ArticleGravitational lens magnifies earliest galaxy yet seen
by John Timmer - Nov 17 2012, 8:45pm GTBST Small galaxy was producing stars only 425 million years after the Big Bang. The contours of the gravitational lens (colored lines) along with the three...
View ArticleCuriosity Rover’s Secret Historic Breakthrough? Speculation Centers on...
By Adam Mann November 20, 2012 | Much of the internet is buzzing over upcoming “big news” from NASA’s Curiosity rover, but the space agency’s scientists are keeping quiet about the details. The report...
View ArticleNever-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Date: 02 January 2013 Time: 01:00 PM ET Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope of the disc of gas and...
View ArticleRoots and wings
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View ArticleMars Orbiter Reveals Evidence Of Underground Lakes – And Possibly Life
A new photograph of Mars suggests that huge lakes of liquid water might lie underneath the Red Planet’s surface. The find has raised hopes that life may have once existed on the planet – and might even...
View ArticleNASA’s Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth
Feb. 28, 2013 — NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these...
View ArticleCuriosity Chills Out In Safe Mode While NASA Analyzes Computer Glitch
Corrupted files may be the fault of cosmic radiation. By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.04.2013 A Rover In Full NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity paused its work over the weekend and is chilling...
View ArticleGiant storms on Saturn: Nasa captures incredible view of ‘rose’ hurricane 20...
Hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth Hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the...
View ArticlePebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed On Mars
May 30, 2013 — Detailed analysis and review have borne out researchers’ initial interpretation of pebble-containing slabs that NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity investigated last year: They are part of an...
View ArticleBillion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rocknest, Mars
View the panorama here: http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interactives/billionpixel/index.cfm?image=PIA16918&view=cyl Filed under: Science/Astronomy Tagged: astronomy, curiosity, jpl, mars, nasa,...
View ArticleVoyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
Voyager 1 appears to have at long last left our solar system and entered interstellar space, says a University of Maryland-led team of researchers Voyager 1 appears to have at long last left our solar...
View ArticleNASA-Funded Scientists Detect Water on Moon’s Surface that Hints at Water Below
This image of the moon was generated by data collected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 mission. It is a three-color composite of reflected...
View ArticleLava World Baffles Astronomers: Planet Kepler-78b ‘Shouldn’t Exist’
Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn’t exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles — one of the tightest known orbits....
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