Astronomy

Light of Alien “Super Earth” seen by Spitzer

  WASHINGTON -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for…

13 years ago

NASA’S Chandra Sees Remarkable Outburst from Old Black Hole

Chandra X-ray Observatory, provides new insight into nature of black holes WASHINGTON -- An extraordinary outburst produced by a black…

13 years ago

NASA’s Kepler Mission Extended to 2016

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation…

13 years ago

Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high

  Mars’ Whirling Dust Devil A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) high was captured winding its way…

13 years ago

New Surface Features Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and…

13 years ago

Small Black Hole causes 2 Million MPH wind

NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar Mass Black Hole WASHINGTON - Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked…

13 years ago

First Planck all-sky carbon monoxide (CO) image

All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck This all-sky image shows the distribution of…

13 years ago

Hubble Telescope makes over one million observations

 This is an artist's concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a "hot Jupiter" class planet orbiting a star that…

13 years ago

Portrait of a Doomed Asteroid

Source NASA - A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory…

13 years ago

New planet in habitable zone found, could harbor life!

New planet best example yet of planet in habitable zone. An International research team analyzed data from the European Southern…

13 years ago