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November 24, 2009 Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance Of Saturn's Northern LightsIn the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet. |
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November 23, 2009 Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown DwarfNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed. |
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November 23, 2009 Wise a Bit Closer to the SkyNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is now perched atop its rocket in preparations for a Dec. 9 liftoff. |
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November 20, 2009 Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines Honor KeplerNASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has earned the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics. |
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November 18, 2009 NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to SmithsonianTwo key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. |
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November 17, 2009 NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole SkyNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. |
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November 11, 2009 WISE Is Chilling OutEngineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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November 10, 2009 NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of AstronomyA never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA today. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. |
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November 4, 2009 Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary SystemNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young star with evidence of the same kind of orbital hyperactivity that our planets had before they found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today. |
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October 20, 2009 Astronomers Do It Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas PlanetPeering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist. |
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October 2, 2009 Herschel's Multi-Hued View of the SkyA new image from the Herschel Observatory shows off the observatory's talents for seeing multiple wavelengths of light. |
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September 23, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary MaterialAstronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. |
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September 18, 2009 In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things)Ninjas knew how to be stealthy: Be dark. Emit very little light. Move in the shadows between bright places. |
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September 17, 2009 Planck Snaps its First Images of Ancient Cosmic LightThe Planck mission has captured its first rough images of the sky, demonstrating the observatory is working and ready to measure light from the dawn of time. |
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September 4, 2009 NASA Approves X-ray Space MissionNASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will launch in August 2011. |
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Kepler Starts Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds |
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Herschel and Planck Launch |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
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