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This colorful cosmic view is part of a Spitzer Space Telescope art project 2010 Winter Olympics cultural festival in Vancouver.

February 9, 2010

Spitzer Goes to the Olympics

Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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UAVSAR pod is carried on the underbelly of NASA's Gulfstream-III research aircraft

February 4, 2010

NASA Radar Studies Continue in Central America, Hispaniola

NASA radar imaging flights over Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are in the second week of a three-week campaign.

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mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.

February 3, 2010

Suspected Asteroid Crash Leaves Odd Debris Trail

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.

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Saturn equinox 2009

February 3, 2010

NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn, Continuing International Cooperation for World Class Science

NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.

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NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility

February 3, 2010

A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way

NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars.

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False-color composite image of the Port-au-Prince, Haiti region

February 1, 2010

JPL Airborne Radar Captures Its First Image of Post-Quake Haiti

JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) captured this false-color composite image of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding region.

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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (center in blue) was briefed Jan. 20.

February 1, 2010

NASA's Aquarius Gets a Presidential Visit

Argentina's president got an up-close look at NASA's Aquarius instrument at the Argentine facility where it's being integrated with the SAC-D spacecraft.

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This artist's concept shows a pair of cool brown dwarfs.

January 29, 2010

The Coolest of Orbs

Astronomers using several telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered what appears to be the coolest star-like body known.

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Prometheus as seen by Cassini

January 28, 2010

Prometheus: Over Easy

Looking for all intents and purposes like a celestial egg after a session in Saturn's skillet, Prometheus displayed its pockmarked, irregular surface for NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 27, 2010.

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artist design for Climate Kids website

January 28, 2010

New NASA Web Site Launches Kids on Mission to Save Our Planet

Climate change can be a daunting topic for most adults to grasp, let alone kids.

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