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June 17, 2013 The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR BusyLike "things that go bump in the night," a few high-energy events in the universe have captured the attention of the NuSTAR telescope. |
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June 11, 2013 Shining a Light on Cool Pools of Gas in the GalaxyThe stuff of stars is not always easy to see. Thanks to the Herschel Space Observatory, invisible pools of gas in our galaxy are being mapped better than before. |
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June 11, 2013 Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar ChaosNASA's NuSTAR space telescope has found evidence of a slumbering massive black hole in a galaxy bursting with new stars. |
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June 6, 2013 Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often)A new study using data from NASA's Kepler mission shows that migrating planets cease their travels before being consumed by their stars. |
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June 5, 2013 NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming CountrysideNew views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, far from its crowded core. |
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May 29, 2013 NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family MembersData from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. |
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May 23, 2013 Galaxies Fed by Funnels of FuelSupercomputers have helped reveal that galaxies bulk up in mass by feeding off cosmic swirly straws of gas. |
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May 22, 2013 Herschel Space Observatory Finds Galaxy Mega MergerA massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. |
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May 16, 2013 Galaxy's Ring of FireThis ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars. |
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May 9, 2013 Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off WorldsResearchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits. |
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May 7, 2013 Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot GasThe supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up hot gas, according to a new study from the Herschel space observatory. |
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May 6, 2013 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri DishAstronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called hot Jupiters. |
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April 29, 2013 Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in SpaceThe Herschel observatory, which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. |
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April 23, 2013 Herschel Links Water Around Jupiter to Comet ImpactAstronomers trace water in Jupiter's intermediate atmospheric layer back to the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact of 19 years ago. |
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April 23, 2013 Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar FuelAstronomers have spotted the most efficient maker of stars yet, a galaxy undergoing a rare phase of evolution. |
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April 18, 2013 Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone PlanetsNASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone." |
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April 18, 2013 Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' ListOn a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth. |
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April 17, 2013 Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early UniverseBusy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby. |
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April 16, 2013 NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Kepler Planetary DiscoveryNASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission. |
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April 9, 2013 NASA Selects 2013 Carl Sagan FellowsNASA has announced recipients of the 2013 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in exoplanet research. |
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April 4, 2013 Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting EinsteinThe light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. |
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April 3, 2013 A Confetti-Like Collection of StarsStars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories. |
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March 28, 2013 Hunting Massive Stars with HerschelIn a new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, the Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. |
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March 21, 2013 Supercomputer Helps Planck Mission Expose Ancient LightHow do scientists extract ancient light from the sky? Like archeologists digging for fossils, they carefully sift through foreground material to reveal their prize. |
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March 21, 2013 Planck Mission Brings Universe Into Sharp FocusThe Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. |
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March 19, 2013 NASA News Telecon: Planck Cosmology Findings (Update)NASA will host a news teleconference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT), Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck. |
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March 19, 2013 Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever SeenAstronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen, thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. |
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March 15, 2013 NASA TV News Conference to Discuss Planck Cosmology FindingsNASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. |
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March 11, 2013 Closest Star System Found in a CenturyNASA's WISE mission has found the closest star system discovered since 1916 -- a pair of brown dwarfs right in our celestial backyard. |
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February 27, 2013 NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole SpinTwo X-ray space observatories have measured definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun. |
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February 25, 2013 NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole StudiesNASA will host a Feb. 27 news telecon about black hole observations by its NuSTAR telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. |
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February 20, 2013 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet SystemNASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. |
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February 12, 2013 JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy MissionThe European Space Agency has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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February 7, 2013 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young StarsTwo of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. |
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February 6, 2013 Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next DoorAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the galaxy have Earth-size planets in their habitable zones. |
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February 5, 2013 WISE Feels the Heat from Orion's SwordThe tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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January 30, 2013 Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making PlanetsA star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. |
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January 28, 2013 Cool, New Views of Andromeda GalaxyTwo new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess. |
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January 24, 2013 NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' MissionNASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. |
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January 22, 2013 Betelgeuse Star Braces for Crash with Strange BarOrion, the famous hunter presiding over northern winter skies, may experience a stellar crash in its future. |
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January 10, 2013 NASA's Galex Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral GalaxyThe spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. |
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January 8, 2013 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown DwarfNASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed 'weather map' yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs. |
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January 8, 2013 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around VegaAstronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy WebNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA Kepler Scientist Honored by National Academy of SciencesWilliam Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. |
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January 7, 2013 Kepler Gets a Little Help From Its FriendsMore than 2,300 exoplanet candidate discoveries have made it the most prolific planet hunter in history. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA's Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet CandidatesNASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. |
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January 3, 2013 Billions and Billions of PlanetsAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission estimate that at least 100 billion planets populate the galaxy. |
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December 19, 2012 Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic CloudsCitizen scientists are invited to help astronomers by tagging clouds and holes in cosmic images from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes. |
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December 18, 2012 Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes WavesA runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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December 6, 2012 Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy ClustersNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is helping to find the rarest and largest of galaxy groupings in the universe. |
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November 27, 2012 Herschel Serves up Solar Systems with Extra CometsAstronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. |
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November 20, 2012 Planck Spots Colossal Intergalactic BridgeThe Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space. |
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November 15, 2012 NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy CandidateBy combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record. |
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November 14, 2012 NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins ExtensionNASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has completed its mission and is starting an extended mission. |
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November 1, 2012 Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to LifeSolar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a new study. |
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October 24, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome StarsA new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. |
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October 23, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black HoleNASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. |
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October 15, 2012 Citizens Discover Four-Star Planet with NASA's KeplerA joint effort of amateur astronomers and scientists has led to the first reported case of a planet orbiting a double star, orbited itself by a second distant pair of stars. |
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October 11, 2012 JPL 'Genius': NASA Astronomer Named MacArthur FellowJPL scientist Olivier Guyon has been named one of the 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award popularly known as the "genius grant." |
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October 3, 2012 The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than LifeWhat was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes. |
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October 3, 2012 NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of UniverseAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart. |
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September 20, 2012 NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 DaysTomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft. |
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September 19, 2012 NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant GalaxyWith the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. |
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September 18, 2012 Researchers Brew Up Organics on IceJPL researchers are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers. |
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September 14, 2012 First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a ClusterNASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. |
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September 11, 2012 Extreme Life Forms Might be Able to Survive on Eccentric ExoplanetsWhile the hunt continues for the elusive Earth-like "blue dot," astronomers have discovered a collection of odd exoplanets. |
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August 29, 2012 NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black HolesNASA's WISE mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. |
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August 23, 2012 NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme ObjectsNASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). |
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July 19, 2012 Meet a Face Behind the MIRIMike Ressler, the project scientist for the MIRI at JPL, has been involved in building infrared astronomical instruments for 30 years. |
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July 18, 2012 Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller Than EarthAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. |
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July 9, 2012 New Instrument Sifts Starlight for New Worlds"Dark holes" around stars will provide astronomers with windows for finding planets. |
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July 5, 2012 The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing DustAstronomers have discovered that vast amounts of planetary dust, enough to fill the inner portions of a solar system, have suddenly vanished. |
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July 2, 2012 Two Cameras Offer View of Webb Telescope in Clean RoomA pair of "Webb-cams" provide a view inside a NASA clean room, where the Mid-Infrared instrument is being integrated into the James Webb Space Telescope. |
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July 2, 2012 The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE ImageA fiery image from NASA's WISE mission shows the Flame nebula "burning" a hole in the cosmic dust. |
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June 28, 2012 Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray EyesNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe. |
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June 26, 2012 Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy ClusterSeeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. |
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June 21, 2012 NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique MastNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. |
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June 21, 2012 Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd CoupleNASA's Kepler mission finds odd planetary duo with the closest orbits between two planets ever confirmed. |
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June 19, 2012 Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large MealsBlack holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. |
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June 14, 2012 First Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb Space TelescopeThe first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. |
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June 13, 2012 Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to FormThe formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. |
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June 13, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts OffNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched this morning over the central Pacific, beginning its mission to study black holes and other exotic objects. |
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June 11, 2012 NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into SpaceThe rocket carrying NASA's NuSTAR mission has launched from its carrier plane. |
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June 8, 2012 WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to HomeAstronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center. |
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June 7, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned FuriouslyThe faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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June 7, 2012 NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch SiteNASA's NuSTAR mission is now at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, awaiting its June 13 airborne launch. |
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June 6, 2012 NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR LaunchNASA will host a news teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) June 11 to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observatory, scheduled for no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) June 13. |
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June 5, 2012 Venus' Transit and the Search for Other WorldsOn June 5 or 6, 2012, depending on your location, catch your final opportunity this century to witness Venus slowly drift across the sun's golden disk. |
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June 4, 2012 NuSTAR Strapped to its PlaneNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is strapped to the bottom of the plane that will carry it to launch on June 13. |
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May 30, 2012 NASA Preparing to Launch its Newest X-Ray EyesNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. |
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May 24, 2012 NASA to Hold News Conference About NuSTAR LaunchNASA will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 30 at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). |
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May 22, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for LaunchEngineers are installing the "nose cone" around NASA's NuSTAR, a black hole hunter. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13. |
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May 21, 2012 NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating PlanetA planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet. |
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May 17, 2012 Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With StarsThe Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. |
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May 16, 2012 NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to CaltechNASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos. |
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May 9, 2012 Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-MakingThe Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes. |
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May 8, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time. |
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May 2, 2012 Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar HomicideAstronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. |
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April 26, 2012 NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With DustImages from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. |
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April 24, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy With Split PersonalityWhile some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. |
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April 12, 2012 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With BlazarsAstronomers are hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. |
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April 12, 2012 Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby StarNew data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut. |
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April 5, 2012 NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler MissionsNASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a result of the 2012 Senior Review of Astrophysics Missions. |
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April 4, 2012 Dark Heart of a Cosmic CollisionThe cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations. |
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April 3, 2012 Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making FuelSupernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower. |
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March 29, 2012 NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing StarThe last exhalations of a dying star can be seen in a new image from NASA's SOFIA telescope. |
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March 16, 2012 Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission PostponedThe planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. |
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March 15, 2012 Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black HolesObservations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal several galaxies containing feeding black holes, called quasars, which are distorting the appearance of galaxies behind them. |
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March 14, 2012 NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared SkyNASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. |
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March 12, 2012 NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing PostponedThe Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed. |
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March 8, 2012 NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR MissionNASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of an innovative X-ray telescope called NuSTAR. |
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March 8, 2012 NASA's Kepler Mission Wins Aviation Week AwardNASA's Kepler mission has been named the winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category. |
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March 7, 2012 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky WayVolunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy. |
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March 2, 2012 Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose ConeNuSTAR is being encapsulated in its rocket nose cone, or fairing, which will protect it during launch, scheduled for no earlier than March 21. |
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February 29, 2012 Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and DustAstronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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February 22, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in SpaceAstronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. |
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February 17, 2012 NuSTAR Mated to its RocketMating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway. |
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February 13, 2012 Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange HazeNew images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. |
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January 27, 2012 NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in CaliforniaNASA's NuSTAR mission has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California, where it will be mated to its Pegasus rocket. |
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January 26, 2012 NASA's Kepler Announces 11 New Planetary SystemsNASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems with a combined total of 26 planets. The mission has discovered more than 60 planets and thousands of candidates. |
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January 25, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 LaunchNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has been shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. |
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January 18, 2012 Revisiting the 'Pillars of Creation'The famous "Pillars of Creation" are seen in a new light by the Herschel Space Observatory. |
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January 17, 2012 Planck Telescope Warms up as PlannedOne of Planck's two instruments has warmed up as expected, completing its survey of the early universe. |
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January 11, 2012 Study Shows Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion PlanetsOur Milky Way galaxy contains, on average, a minimum of one planet for every star, according to a new statistical study. |
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January 11, 2012 NASA's Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest ExoplanetsAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. |
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January 10, 2012 Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New WISE ImageA new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth. |
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January 10, 2012 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space NurseryThe stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. |
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January 10, 2012 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' StardustThe cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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December 21, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of TimeA remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. |
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December 20, 2011 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar SystemNASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. |
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December 9, 2011 Star Explosion Leaves Behind a RoseWhat appears to be a giant red rose in space is all that's left of a star that exploded long ago. |
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December 5, 2011 NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet In Habitable ZoneNASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. |
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November 10, 2011 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared LightThe Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. |
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November 10, 2011 New Study Shows Very First Stars Not MonstrousThe very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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October 26, 2011 'Pacman' Nebula Gets Some TeethWhen viewed in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the "Pacman" nebula looks hungrier than usual. |
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October 24, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova MysteryA mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. |
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October 20, 2011 Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby StarUsing data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. |
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October 19, 2011 Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of CompanionsAstronomers find a star with a companion as cool as Earth. |
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October 19, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar SystemNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. |
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October 6, 2011 Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble DataScientists are digging up planetary finds from old images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. |
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October 5, 2011 Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's OceansAstronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. |
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September 29, 2011 NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept StudiesNASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. |
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September 20, 2011 NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring JetAstronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. |
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September 15, 2011 NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two StarsThe existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. |
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September 14, 2011 NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media BriefingNASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. |
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September 13, 2011 Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and SteadyNew findings from the Herschel Space Observatory paint a more tranquil picture of galaxy growth than previously thought. |
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August 23, 2011 NASA's Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of StarsScientists 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. |
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August 18, 2011 Webb Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic TestingAn instrument designed to probe the early universe has undergone tests mimicking the harsh conditions of space. |
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August 15, 2011 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in SpaceFlat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. |
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August 10, 2011 A Cosmic Inkblot TestWhat do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? |
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August 1, 2011 Herschel Telescope Detects Oxygen Molecules in SpaceThe Herschel Space Observatory's large telescope and state-of-the-art infrared detectors have provided the first confirmed finding of oxygen molecules in space. |
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July 22, 2011 Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of WaterAstronomers, including a team led by Matt Bradford of JPL, found a feeding black hole soaking in water vapor. |
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July 20, 2011 Spitzer Sees Spider Web of StarsStars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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July 19, 2011 Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's RingNew observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. |
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July 7, 2011 Herschel Helps Solve Mystery of Cosmic Dust OriginsNew observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160,000 and 230,000 Earth masses of fresh dust. |
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June 30, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on GasGalaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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June 29, 2011 Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in OrionThe universe sports a pair of infrared shades, as seen in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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June 21, 2011 Astronomers Investigate Galactic CrashA team of scientists, including Jason Rhodes and Leonidas Moustakas of JPL, has pieced together the violent history of a galactic pile-up. |
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June 15, 2011 A Green Ring Fit for a SuperheroHas the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, belongs to the cosmos. |
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May 31, 2011 A Night with the Stars...in a Conference RoomAstronomers no longer peer through telescopes up at the night sky. The wonders of the universe can now be accessed right from a laptop. |
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May 26, 2011 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant StarTiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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May 25, 2011 Teasing Apart Galaxy CollisionsAstronomers are picking through the wreckage of galactic collisions to better understand the destruction, and the creation of new stars. |
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May 25, 2011 NASA's WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to ComeAn assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released today by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. |
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May 19, 2011 NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark EnergyA five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. |
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May 18, 2011 Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than StarsAstronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. |
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April 21, 2011 Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny GalaxiesAstronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. |
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April 14, 2011 WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, AsteroidsAstronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's WISE mission. |
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April 13, 2011 Do Cosmic Strings of Gas Come From Sonic Booms?The Herschel Space Observatory has found evidence that tangled filaments in space may be shaped by sonic booms. |
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April 12, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young GalaxyAstronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. |
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April 7, 2011 NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting TargetsAstronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. |
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April 4, 2011 NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young StarAstronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing a time delay. |
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April 1, 2011 The Art of Making StarsA swirling palette of star-forming clouds can be seen in this picturesque image from WISE. |
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March 29, 2011 NASA Announces 2011 Carl Sagan FellowsNASA announces the 2011 Carl Sagan Fellowships, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. |
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March 23, 2011 Stinky Origins to Life? New Analysis Yields CluesThe origins of life may have been smelly, according to a recent, NASA-funded analysis of residue from 1950s classic experiments performed by a researcher, Stanley Miller. |
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March 18, 2011 Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky WayA view from the bustling center of our galactic metropolis. Spitzer Space Telescope offers us a fresh, infrared view of the frenzied scene at the center of our Milky Way, revealing what lies behind the dust. |
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March 10, 2011 Speed Demon Creates a ShockWISE has captured a star zipping through space like a race car driver. |
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March 4, 2011 'Elephant Trunks' in SpaceA new image from NASA's WISE mission shows a zoo of "elephant trunks" herded together in a star-forming region. |
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March 3, 2011 Spitzer Captures Infrared Rays From a SunflowerA galactic sunflower shows off its infrared colors in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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February 16, 2011 Herschel Measures Dark Matter for Star-Forming GalaxiesThe Herschel Space Observatory has revealed how much dark matter it takes to form a new galaxy bursting with stars. |
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February 10, 2011 New View of Family Life in the North American NebulaStars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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February 2, 2011 Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found in Habitable ZoneNASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and candidates in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. |
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January 26, 2011 An Astronomer's Field of DreamsA group of JPL researchers and their colleagues will hunt for new and exotic objects in the sky by using ceiling-fan-size antennas. |
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January 24, 2011 Runaway Star Plows Through SpaceCan you tell which way the central, bright blue star is traveling in this new image from WISE? |
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January 13, 2011 Partner Galaxies Wildly Different In New WISE ImageNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies -- a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner. |
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January 12, 2011 NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy ClusterAstronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. |
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January 12, 2011 Cosmology Standard Candle not so Standard After AllAstronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought. |
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January 11, 2011 Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the UniverseThe Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky. |
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January 10, 2011 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky PlanetNASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. |
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January 6, 2011 Extreme Planet MakeoverThe new "Extreme Planet Makeover" on the NASA/JPL PlanetQuest site lets you roll up your sleeves and create your very own planet. |
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January 5, 2011 Andromeda is So Hot 'n' ColdCool, dusty arms spiral around an explosive center in this new image of the Andromeda galaxy from the Herschel and XMM-Newton telescopes. |
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December 16, 2010 A Galaxy for EveryoneNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, celebrates its launch anniversary with a taste of four galaxy flavors. |
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December 9, 2010 WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared LightNASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has caught sight of an unusual display of infrared colors around a supernova remnant. |
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December 8, 2010 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich PlanetAstronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. |
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December 6, 2010 So You Think You Can Solve a Cosmology Puzzle?Scientists challenge other scientists with a series of galaxy puzzles |
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December 2, 2010 Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes to the SkyThe Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor. |
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December 1, 2010 NASA Aids in Characterizing Super-Earth AtmosphereA team of astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, has made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere, by using a ground-based telescope. |
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November 24, 2010 Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of GalaxiesAstronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies. |
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November 23, 2010 Tuning an 'Ear' to the Music of Gravitational WavesA team of scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has brought the world one step closer to "hearing" gravitational waves. |
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November 22, 2010 Spitzer Sees Shrouded Burst of StarsAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. |
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November 17, 2010 WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen in Starry SeaA new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. |
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November 11, 2010 Shedding 'Bent' Light on Dark MatterAn astronomy team led by Dan Coe, formerly of JPL, has created one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. |
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November 9, 2010 Cool Star is a Gem of a FindNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. |
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November 4, 2010 Herschel's Hidden Talent: Digging Up Magnified GalaxiesIt turns out the Herschel Space Observatory has a trick up its sleeve. The telescope has proven to be excellent at finding magnified, faraway galaxies. |
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October 28, 2010 NASA Survey Suggests Earth-Sized Planets are CommonNearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California. |
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October 27, 2010 Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer TelescopeAstronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. |
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October 26, 2010 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse of Distant StarsThe Kepler spacecraft is measuring "starquakes" to learn more about the evolution of stars. |
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October 19, 2010 Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an ExoplanetObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. |
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October 13, 2010 The Many Infrared 'Personalities' of the Sculptor GalaxyThe Sculptor galaxy is seen in a rainbow of infrared colors by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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October 13, 2010 Camera That Saved Hubble Leaves Nest for GoodThe historic space telescope camera leaves JPL, where it was developed and built, after a visit. The camera was the Hubble Space Telescope's most prolific instrument. |
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October 5, 2010 WISE Captures Key Images of Comet Mission's DestinationNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. |
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October 4, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission Warms Up but Keeps Chugging AlongAfter completing its primary mission to map the infrared sky, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has reached the expected end of its onboard supply of frozen coolant. |
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September 23, 2010 Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star BirthNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data reveal a newly found phenomenon that offers insight into cores of star-forming regions. |
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September 2, 2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of AsteroidsNew research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions. |
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September 1, 2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic DesertHow did water end up around an old, dying star? The Herschel space observatory has new clues. |
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August 26, 2010 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same StarNASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. |
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August 25, 2010 WISE Captures the Unicorn's RoseUnicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's WISE mission shows the Rosette nebula in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn. |
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August 23, 2010 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double StarsTight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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August 19, 2010 Cosmic Lens Used to Probe Dark Energy for First TimeAstronomers have devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe -- dark energy. |
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August 18, 2010 Galaxies' Glory Days RevealedAstronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying as a wild youth. |
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August 11, 2010 Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected GalaxiesAstronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life. |
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August 10, 2010 WISE Spacecraft Warming UpNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is warming up. Team members say the spacecraft is running out of the frozen coolant needed to keep its heat-sensitive instrument chilled. |
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August 5, 2010 NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic SpectacleA new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. |
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July 22, 2010 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First TimeAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. |
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July 16, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky SurveyNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17, 2010. |
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July 14, 2010 Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive StarA new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets could form around the galaxy's biggest bodies. |
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July 7, 2010 Puff, the Magic Dragon?A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly with the stars in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom). In visible light (top), the creature disappears into the mist. |
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July 6, 2010 Planck Takes It All InA new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year -- surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins. |
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June 24, 2010 The Coolest Stars Come Out of the DarkAstronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. |
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June 23, 2010 Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-UpMany scientists speculate that our galaxy could be full of places like Pandora from the movie "Avatar" -- Earth-like worlds in solar systems besides our own. |
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June 17, 2010 Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star?Some might see a blood-red jellyfish, while others might see a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object in this new image from WISE is a sphere of stellar innards. |
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June 17, 2010 Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy TailNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. |
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June 15, 2010 NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrasolar PlanetsNASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. |
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June 1, 2010 Backwards Black Holes Might Make Bigger JetsGoing against the grain may turn out to be a powerful move for black holes. |
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May 26, 2010 Astronomers Discover New Star-Forming Regions in Milky WayNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and radio telescopes are probing the structure of our Milky Way galaxy. |
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May 24, 2010 WISE Telescope has Heart and SoulNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured a huge mosaic of two bubbling clouds in space, known as the Heart and Soul nebulae. |
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May 20, 2010 Two Peas in an Irregular PodOur sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. |
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May 13, 2010 Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole NebulaA new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, and asteroids that just happened to be cruising by. |
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May 11, 2010 Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly ModernIn a recent deep excavation, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers unearthed what may be the most distant, primitive cluster of galaxies ever found. |
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May 10, 2010 Herschel Finds a Hole in SpaceThe Herschel Space Observatory has made an unexpected discovery: a gaping hole in the clouds surrounding a batch of young stars. |
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May 6, 2010 Herschel Gets Sneak Peak at Star BirthThe first scientific results from the Herschel infrared space observatory are revealing previously hidden details of star formation. |
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April 26, 2010 Planck Sees a Cold and Stormy OrionThe big hunter in the sky is seen in a new light by Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. |
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April 21, 2010 'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to SpitzerNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. |
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April 14, 2010 Small, Ground-Based Telescope Images Three ExoplanetsAstronomers have snapped a picture of three planets orbiting a star beyond our own using a modest-sized telescope on the ground. |
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April 13, 2010 Comets, the Solar System's Most Spectacular NomadsAn interactive web site provides an overview of comets - including details on their anatomy and information on comets that have been visited by spacecraft. |
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April 12, 2010 Space Telescope Moves on with One DetectorMission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer are no longer planning science observations around one of the space telescope's two ultraviolet detectors. |
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April 12, 2010 Herschel Reveals Ripening Stars Near Rosette NebulaThe Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a cosmic garden of budding stars, each expected to grow to 10 times the mass of our sun. |
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April 7, 2010 Hiding Out Behind the Milky WayA leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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April 1, 2010 Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer ImageAstronomers have their eyes on a hot group of young stars, watching their every move like the paparazzi. |
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March 29, 2010 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer ImageA new image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. |
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March 17, 2010 NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black HolesAstronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. |
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March 17, 2010 Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold DustTendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe. |
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March 16, 2010 WISE Captures a Cosmic RoseA new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. |
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March 4, 2010 NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in SpaceOne year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like Earth. |
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March 4, 2010 Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in SpaceThe Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula. |
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February 26, 2010 NASA Announces 2010 Carl Sagan FellowsNASA has selected seven scientists as recipients of Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in exoplanet exploration for 2010. |
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February 18, 2010 Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near UsFour NASA space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Swift— help probe a dinosaur-like find of galactic proportions. |
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February 17, 2010 NASA's WISE Mission Releases Medley of First ImagesA diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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February 11, 2010 WISE Spies a Comet with its Powerful Infrared EyeWISE has discovered its first comet, one of many objects the mission is expected to find during its ongoing infrared survey of the sky. |
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February 9, 2010 Spitzer Goes to the OlympicsArtwork 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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February 3, 2010 A Little Telescope Goes a Long WayNASA 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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January 29, 2010 The Coolest of OrbsAstronomers 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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January 25, 2010 NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth AsteroidNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. |
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January 14, 2010 Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky SurveyNASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky today. |
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January 6, 2010 NASA's WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry SkyNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light. |
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January 6, 2010 Latest Astronomy Conference UpdateThousands of astronomers have amassed at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. |
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January 6, 2010 Planets Can Form Around Hefty StarsNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is helping scientists find evidence for planets around massive stars. |
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January 5, 2010 Galaxy Exposes Its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer ImageNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth. |
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January 5, 2010 Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a CloseFor almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky. |
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January 4, 2010 NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five ExoplanetsNASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. |
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December 29, 2009 NASA's WISE Space Telescope Jettisons Its CoverNASA's recently launched Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer opened its eyes to the starry sky today, after ejecting its protective cover. |
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December 23, 2009 Keck Telescopes Gaze into Young Star's 'Life Zone.'An astronomy team that includes JPL scientists has probed the inner structure of a dust disk around a star using the Keck Interferometer. |
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December 22, 2009 Prepping WISE to Pop Its Lens CapEngineers are getting ready to eject the cover on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which launched from Vandengerg Air Force Base, Calif., on Dec. 14. |
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December 17, 2009 Dark Heart of the EagleThe Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA/JPL participation, has revealed a surprising amount of activity in the Eagle nebula. |
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December 14, 2009 NASA's WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey MissionNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. |
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December 14, 2009 WISE has launched!WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. |
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December 10, 2009 WISE Launch Rescheduled for December 14The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is now rescheduled for Dec. 14. |
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December 9, 2009 WISE Launch Delayed 24 HoursLiftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours. |
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December 9, 2009 NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the SkiesThe countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. |
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December 4, 2009 WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11Launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Dec. 11. |
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December 3, 2009 Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler PlanetariumThe world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week in Chicago. |
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November 30, 2009 WISE Snug in Its Nose ConeNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or "fairing," that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. |
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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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August 19, 2009 Galaxies Demand a Stellar RecountFor decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. |
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August 17, 2009 NASA's WISE Mission Arrives at Launch SiteNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has arrived at its last stop on Earth -- Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. |
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August 13, 2009 Planck Sees Light Billions of Years OldThe Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe. |
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August 12, 2009 Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star FormationA new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. |
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August 10, 2009 Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava FlyingNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. |
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August 5, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Sees The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared EyesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. |
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July 27, 2009 Warmed Up and Ready to GoNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe. |
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July 23, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World GalaxyNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. |
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July 14, 2009 JPL Engineer Narrates 'Are We Alone?'Gentry Lee, a chief engineer for JPL's solar system missions, narrates a two-hour documentary that explores the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. |
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July 10, 2009 Herschel Instruments Get First Peek at CosmosAll three of Herschel's instruments have now opened their eyes and collected their first astronomy data. |
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June 26, 2009 Herschel Opens Its Infrared EyesThe Herschel Space Observatory has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009. |
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June 15, 2009 Herschel's Cover Flips OpenThe Herschel observatory has flipped its lid -- the cover protecting the telescope's instruments was successfully removed on June 14, 2009. |
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June 12, 2009 On the JPL Blog: Five 'Holy Grails' of Distant Solar SystemsFridays@5, a new series bringing you five cool ideas from a scientist or engineer, debuts today. First up, JPL and Caltech 's Angelle Tanner lists goals in extrasolar planet research. |
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June 12, 2009 Planck Chills OutA JPL-developed and -built cooler on the Planck spacecraft has chilled the mission's low-frequency instrument down to its operating temperature. |
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June 10, 2009 WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for LaunchNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has been assembled and is undergoing final preparations for a planned Nov. 1 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. |
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June 10, 2009 Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic CenterAstronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. |
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May 28, 2009 Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at LastA long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. |
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May 26, 2009 'Camera That Saved Hubble' Returns To EarthThe JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 returned to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis Sunday (5/24/09). The camera was the Hubble Space Telescope's longest serving instrument. |
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May 19, 2009 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Coming TogetherThe science instrument for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been shipped to Boulder, Colo. |
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May 15, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm MissionAfter more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, Spitzer has run out of the coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled. |
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May 14, 2009 Herschel and Planck on Way to Study Our Cosmic RootsThe Herschel and Planck spacecraft successfully blasted into space on May 14 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. |
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May 14, 2009 'Camera That Saved Hubble' - Didn't Want to LeaveAfter struggling with a frozen bolt, spacewalking astronauts removed the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope today (Thurs.). |
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May 13, 2009 Let the Planet Hunt BeginNASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. |
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May 13, 2009 Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet CrystalsScientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's outer edges. |
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May 13, 2009 Astronauts to Lift JPL-Built Camera Out of HubbleSpacewalking astronauts will remove the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (Thurs.). |
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May 12, 2009 Herschel and Planck Almost Ready for LiftoffTwo missions to study our cosmic roots, Herschel and Planck, are stacked atop the same Ariane 5 rocket, waiting to blast into space on Thurs., May 14. |
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May 11, 2009 Mission to Return JPL-Built Hubble Camera UnderwaySpace Shuttle Atlantis has lifted on a mission whose goals include extracting and returning the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. |
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May 10, 2009 Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super CameraThe Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera. |
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May 10, 2009 The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse. |
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May 6, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New CareerThe primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. |
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May 5, 2009 Herschel and Planck Share Ride to SpaceTwo missions to study the cosmos are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. |
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May 5, 2009 A Universal Art Form: NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age. |
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May 4, 2009 If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space TelescopeNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. |
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May 4, 2009 Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse CameraHere are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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April 30, 2009 Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal how stars are dispersed in spiral galaxies. |
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April 28, 2009 NASA's Galaxy-Exploring Mission Celebrates Sixth AnniversaryNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope. |
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April 22, 2009 Spitzer Teams up With Other Telescopes to Find Big BlobA suite of telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a giant blob of gas in the very distant universe. |
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April 21, 2009 Hubble Captures 'Fountain of Youth'A "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust was photographed with the JPL-built and -developed Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on Hubble. |
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April 20, 2009 Solar Systems Around Dead Suns?Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has found that at least one in 100 white dwarf stars shows evidence of orbiting asteroids and rocky planets. |
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April 16, 2009 NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting TerritoryNASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. |
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April 8, 2009 Balloon Experiment Catches Half the Universe's StarlightJamie Bock of JPL is part of a team that used a balloon-borne experiment called Blast and NASA's Spitzer telescope to hunt for faraway galaxies. |
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April 7, 2009 Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler TelescopeEngineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth. |
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April 7, 2009 Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming ChemicalsLife on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? |
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April 7, 2009 Kepler Dust Cover Poised for RemovalThe dust cover on NASA's Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to be ejected tonight. |
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April 3, 2009 Deep-Space Images Released for Astronomy WebcastNew NASA/JPL images from two missions and a Hubble camera are being released today as part of an International Year of Astronomy event. |
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April 2, 2009 NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. |
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March 19, 2009 JPL Astronomer Assesses Challenges of Finding Life ElsewhereNew research co-led by JPL's Wes Traub discusses how and where NASA's James Webb Space Telescope might look for signs of life. |
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March 16, 2009 Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train WreckA new image from Spitzer offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun. |
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March 12, 2009 Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After AllGalactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. |
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March 6, 2009 NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other EarthsNASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST (7:49 p.m. PST), Friday, March 6. |
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March 5, 2009 NASA's Kepler Mission Set for LaunchNASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6. |
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March 5, 2009 Five Things About KeplerHere are some quick facts about the Kepler mission, scheduled to launch March 6, 2009. |
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March 3, 2009 Planck Arrives at Launch PadThe Planck spacecraft has arrived at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled to be launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket on April 16. |
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March 3, 2009 On the JPL Blog: Almost ThereJPL systems engineer Tracy Drain blogs about the upcoming launch of NASA's Kepler mission, which will look for Earth-like planets. |
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February 25, 2009 NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics FellowsNASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. |
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February 24, 2009 Kepler One Step Closer to LaunchNASA's Kepler spacecraft was successfully mated to its rocket in preparation for a March 5 launch. |
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February 19, 2009 NASA's Kepler Mission to Seek Other EarthsNASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life. |
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February 18, 2009 New Recipe for Dwarf Galaxies: Start With Leftover GasThere is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. |
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February 17, 2009 Herschel Arrives at Launch SiteThe Herschel observatory has arrived at its launch pad at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana. |
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February 10, 2009 NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of AstronomyGalileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy. |
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February 3, 2009 JPL Blog: How We See Dark MatterAstronomer Dan Coe ponders one of the most elusive components of the universe, dark matter. |
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January 28, 2009 Astronomers Observe Planet With Wild Temperature SwingsThe "hot-headed" planet, observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is a gas giant that orbits a star 190 light-years from Earth. |
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January 15, 2009 Spitzer Finds Dust Around Primitive StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, enlivening a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust. |
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January 7, 2009 Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'JPLer Raghvendra Sahai and colleagues found several runaway stars, racing through space like bullets. |
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January 7, 2009 Latest Astronomy Conference Update: Balloon MissionNews from the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Long Beach, Calif. |
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January 7, 2009 Planet-Finding Mission Arrives in FloridaNASA's Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in March on a journey to search for other Earths, arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
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January 5, 2009 Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet BirthObservations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. |
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December 22, 2008 What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us About Dark Energy?About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. |
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December 18, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to FloridaEngineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. |
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December 18, 2008 Hubble Eyes Jupiter-Ganymede ComboThe JPL-developed and -built Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Jupiter with its moon Ganymede. |
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December 16, 2008 Planets Living on the EdgeA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. |
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December 10, 2008 Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar BulbsIt's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun. |
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December 9, 2008 Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar PlanetNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. |
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December 8, 2008 Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space ImageA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. |
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December 3, 2008 Vivid Death of a StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to this view of the remains of a star whose death was witnessed on Earth centuries ago. |
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November 20, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Chips In To Galactic Core PortraitJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies. |
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November 20, 2008 Magazine Honors a Star of NuSTARPrincipal investigators for two JPL-managed missions -- Fiona Harrison of Caltech, with the NuSTAR mission, and Maria Zuber of MIT, with the Grail moon mission -- are honored by U.S. News & World Report as two of "America's Best Leaders." |
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November 13, 2008 Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another StarNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. |
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November 11, 2008 Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet IngredientsShock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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October 31, 2008 'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope ImageNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies. |
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October 30, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Keeps on ClickingThe Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by JPL, is back in the image business. It has been a workhorse on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope since 1993. |
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October 28, 2008 The Great Cosmology ChallengeCosmologists at JPL and other institutions are challenging researchers to come up with better statistical tools for probing dark matter and dark energy. |
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October 27, 2008 Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid BeltsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts. Our own solar system has just one. |
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October 13, 2008 NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet HolmesWhen comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. |
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October 8, 2008 Splashy Portrait Helps Explain How Stars FormDifferent wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, star-forming region. |
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October 7, 2008 Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe TogetherA new exhibition opening in Pasadena brings artists and astronomers together to create original pieces of art. The project is a collaboration between the Art Center College of Design and NASA's Spitzer Science Center. |
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October 2, 2008 Stellar Landscape for 10 Years of Hubble HeritageThis landscape-like picture of a star-forming region contains data taken earlier this year with JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. |
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October 1, 2008 Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova FlashbackHot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 23, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More TestsNASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test. |
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September 18, 2008 Water Hit With Young Star's Best ShotWater is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 17, 2008 Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass TestsYou might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea. |
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September 3, 2008 NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial WorldsNASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. |
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August 22, 2008 Generations of Stars Pose for Family PortraitA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. |
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August 20, 2008 Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and LargeBlack holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. |
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August 11, 2008 JPL Camera Marks Hubble's 100,000th OrbitTo commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away. |
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July 21, 2008 Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel GalaxyThe Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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July 15, 2008 Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New CompetitionA contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. |
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July 10, 2008 Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant UniverseAstronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. |
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July 7, 2008 Spitzer Team Member Wins Gold MedalSpitzer science team member Giovanni Fazio has won a prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to space science. |
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July 1, 2008 Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial FireworksObservations from JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to this image showing a delicate ribbon of gas floating eerily in space. |
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June 3, 2008 Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our GalaxyMore than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy. |
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June 3, 2008 Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go MissingNew images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess. |
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May 29, 2008 Scientists Hold Seance for SupernovaAstronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. |
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May 28, 2008 Strange Ring Found Circling Dead StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. |
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May 27, 2008 Experts Discuss How to Find Another EarthOn May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it. |
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May 5, 2008 NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into SpaceHere's your chance to have your name on board the spacecraft that could discover the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system. |
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April 28, 2008 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in SpaceSince its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light. |
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April 24, 2008 Wild Galaxies CollideNASA's Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 18th anniversary with a new collection of images showcasing colliding galaxies, including some captured by JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. |
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April 16, 2008 Stellar Birth in the Galactic WildernessA new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy. |
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April 10, 2008 Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar SphereMillions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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April 10, 2008 Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking ExplosionJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an optical image of what was a titanic gamma-ray blast. |
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March 19, 2008 Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an ExoplanetA team of astronomers, led by JPL's Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. |
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March 19, 2008 JPL's Mark Swain: Expert on Exoplanets and EspressoCoffee is one of the tools that Mark Swain, a JPL research scientist, uses to stay sharp when he studies exoplanets, or planets around other stars. |
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March 13, 2008 Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May GrowResearchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there. |
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March 3, 2008 JPL Helps Shoot for the Moon, Stars, Planets and MoreA giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions. |
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February 26, 2008 Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the SkyDiamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them. |
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February 20, 2008 Tests Underway for Kepler Mission Image DetectorsSensitive detectors that may help find habitable planets orbiting distant stars as part of NASA's Kepler Mission are undergoing tests at NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California. |
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February 17, 2008 Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky PlanetsAstronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. |
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February 15, 2008 NASA Sponsors Studies of Next Generation Astronomy MissionsJPL is involved in 15 of 19 science teams selected by NASA to conduct yearlong studies of new concepts for its next generation of major observatories. |
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February 12, 2008 Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early UniverseNASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages." |
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February 11, 2008 Spitzer Catches Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of DustNewborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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January 31, 2008 NASA and the Beatles Celebrate Anniversaries by Beaming Song 'Across the Universe' Into Deep SpaceFor the first time ever, NASA will beam a song - The Beatles "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Feb. 4. |
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January 28, 2008 Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch a Nova SurpriseFirst results from NASA's Keck Interferometer in Hawaii are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful nova explosions. |
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January 25, 2008 Cosmic Suburbia Is a Better Breeding Ground for StarsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that galaxies prefer to raise stars in cosmic suburbia rather than in "big cities." |
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January 15, 2008 NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind ReadersNASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. |
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January 10, 2008 Even Thin Galaxies Can Grow Fat Black HolesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies. |
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December 20, 2007 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star ExplosionAstronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars. |
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December 17, 2007 Black Hole Fires at Neighboring GalaxyA powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting another galaxy, according to new results from NASA telescopes, including Spitzer. |
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December 6, 2007 James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Gets Vision TestA model of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument, currently being co-developed by JPL, will be tested in England to ensure the final instrument can see infrared light. |
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December 5, 2007 NASA Mega-Telescope Gears Up to Study CosmosNASA has selected three teams of scientists to begin studying disks of dust around nearby stars starting in February 2008, using the Keck Interferometer in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. |
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November 29, 2007 Keep Track of New Worlds: PlanetQuest 2.0More than 260 planets have already been discovered orbiting other stars, and new ones are found almost every month |
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November 29, 2007 Embryonic Star Captured With Jets FlaringA developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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November 28, 2007 Youthful Star Sprouts Planets EarlyA stellar prodigy has been spotted about 450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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November 20, 2007 Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are UncommonThe next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky. |
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November 15, 2007 Planets Forming in Pleiades Star ClusterRocky planets might have formed or might still be forming around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, according to evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based telescope. |
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November 14, 2007 Watching Galaxies Grow Old GracefullyIn the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone. |
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November 8, 2007 Spitzer Spies a Stellar Bubble BlowerA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles in outer space. |
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November 6, 2007 Scientists Discover Record Fifth Planet Orbiting Nearby StarAstronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. |
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October 30, 2007 Dancing with the Stars Takes on a Whole New TwistTwo galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new picture taken by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. |
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October 25, 2007 Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. |
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October 22, 2007 To Catch a Galactic ThiefOn Earth, thieves steal everything from diamonds to art to bags full of money. In space, gas - fuel for making stars - is a commodity worth the price of theft. |
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October 9, 2007 Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black HolesThe hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. |
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October 4, 2007 Astronomers Map Itsy Bitsy Galaxy Halfway Across UniverseAn international team of scientists has used a trick of nature to measure a tiny galaxy halfway across the universe. |
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October 3, 2007 Google Sky Sees Many WavelengthsNew "far out" views of the distant universe from Spitzer, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and other telescopes were released to Google Sky. Peter Eisenhardt and Leonidas Moustakas of JPL helped capture some of the images. |
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October 3, 2007 Star System 'Just Right' for Building an EarthAn Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 25, 2007 Women's Hall of Fame Pick Spitzer AstronomerNational Women's Hall of Fame has selected a Spitzer Space Telescope astronomer to join its ranks. Judith Pipher of the University of Rochester, N.Y., helped develop Spitzer's infrared array camera, which continues to unveil the cosmos. |
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September 21, 2007 NASA Restarts Telescope Mission to Detect Black HolesNASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. |
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September 13, 2007 A Star-Formation NeighborWhile perhaps not quite as well known as its star-formation cousin Orion, the Corona Australis region (containing, at its heart, the Coronet cluster) is one of the nearest and most active regions of ongoing star formation. |
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September 12, 2007 Stars Go Out in StyleNew snapshots from space illustrate the colorful evolution of dying sun-like stars. The images were captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. |
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September 6, 2007 NASA Space Telescopes Find 'Lego-Block' Galaxies in Early UniverseNASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe. |
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August 29, 2007 Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' On Young Star SystemNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. |
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August 24, 2007 Spitzer Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Celestial FireworksA newly expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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August 15, 2007 Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across SkyNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. |
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August 6, 2007 NASA'S Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy PileupFour galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed. |
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July 24, 2007 Spitzer Finds Evidence for Planets with Four ParentsHow many stars does it take to "raise" a planet? New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that planets might be forming in systems with as many as four stars. |
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July 11, 2007 NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien PlanetA scorching-hot gas planet beyond our solar system is steaming up with water vapor, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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June 20, 2007 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of StarsThe Galaxy Evolution Explorer's ultraviolet eyes have captured a globular star cluster, called NGC 362, in our own Milky Way galaxy. |
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June 19, 2007 NASA/European Space Agency Sign for JPL-Managed ProjectsJPL manages the U.S. portion of projects covered in new NASA-European Space Agency agreements ÂJames Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, and LISA Pathfinder mission's Disturbance Reduction System Package. JPL is a partner on the full LISA mission. |
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June 13, 2007 Spitzer Searches for the Origins of LifeAstronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly bombarded by cosmic debris. |
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June 7, 2007 Meet the 10 Most Intriguing Stars of 2007They don't have official fan clubs, but some stars in the sky have a huge following among astronomers. Meet "2007'S 10 Most Intriguing Stars" in a new slide show. |
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June 4, 2007 M81 Galaxy is Pretty in PinkThe perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from Spitzer, Hubble and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. |
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May 30, 2007 NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth PerceptionAstronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. |
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May 29, 2007 Spitzer Nets Thousands of Galaxies in a Giant ClusterNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has bagged more than a thousand previously unknown dwarf galaxies in a giant cluster of galaxies. |
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May 17, 2007 Baby Stars Hatching in Orion's HeadA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of Orion, the famous hunter constellation visible from northern hemispheres during winter nights. |
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May 10, 2007 Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home PlanetAstronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have concluded that the SIM PlanetQuest mission would be able to detect an Earth-like planet around 40 Eridani, a star familiar to "Star Trek" fans as the location of planet Vulcan. |
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May 10, 2007 Recycled Dwarf Galaxies Have 'Missing Mass'Astronomers have found that dwarf galaxies made of debris from colliding galaxies are surprisingly massive. This might reveal much previously undetected "missing mass." Images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Spitzer Space Telescopes formed a foundation for the research. |
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May 9, 2007 NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather MapResearchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds. |
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May 1, 2007 Galaxy Mission Completes Four Star-Studded Years in SpaceNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer celebrates its fourth anniversary with some of the "hottest stars" in the M81 spiral galaxy. The mission, which launched April 28, 2003, studies the universe with its ultraviolet eyes. |
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May 1, 2007 Spitzer Spies Jet-Setting StarsRainbow-colored jets in the cosmic cloud BHR 71 point to a celestial smash occurring 600 light-years away from Earth. |
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April 18, 2007 Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger ZoneAstronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted away. |
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April 12, 2007 The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer - and for You!The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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April 11, 2007 NASA Shows Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth TwinFor the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. |
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April 11, 2007 Do Faraway Worlds Have Red Trees?Research by scientists, including David Crisp of JPL, indicates foliage on other Earth-sized worlds could be mainly yellow, orange or red. |
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April 10, 2007 Mystery Spiral Arms Explained?A quartet of space observatories, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, may have cracked a mystery surrounding ghostly galactic arms. |
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March 29, 2007 NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar TwinsThe double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy. |
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March 12, 2007 New Panorama Reveals More Than 1,000 Black HolesAstronomers have created a black hole panorama using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes. |
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March 9, 2007 Planet Hunting Lands in L.A. LibraryAn out-of-this-world exhibit has landed smack in the middle of downtown Los Angeles -- in a library, of all places. |
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March 7, 2007 NASA Mission Finds Link Between Big and Small Stellar BlastsProof that certain double star systems can erupt in full-blown explosions and then continue to flare up with smaller bursts has been spotted by the ultraviolet eyes of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. |
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February 21, 2007 NASA's Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway WorldsNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify molecules in their atmospheres. |
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February 13, 2007 The Colorful Demise of a Sun-Like StarA new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun. The picture was taken on Feb. 6, 2007, by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which was designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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February 12, 2007 Comets Clash at Heart of Helix NebulaA bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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February 6, 2007 Finding Beauty in the UniverseBeth Biller overcame her fear of math to pursue her career as a serious astronomer. |
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January 22, 2007 Science Foundation Honors Two Telescope ScientistsA National Science Foundation medal goes to two scientists whose work on NASA's Two Micron All-Sky Survey enabled "a thrilling variety of explorations in astronomy and astrophysics." |
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January 10, 2007 Older Galaxy Pair Has Surprisingly Youthful GlowA pair of interacting galaxies might be experiencing the galactic equivalent of a mid-life crisis, according to new evidence from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory. |
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January 9, 2007 Famous Space Pillars Feel the Heat of Star's ExplosionThe three iconic space pillars photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 might have met their demise, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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January 8, 2007 Astronomers Map 'Clumpy' Dark Matter in 3-DAn international team of astronomers, including JPLer Jason Rhodes, used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create the first three-dimensional map of dark matter in the universe. |
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January 5, 2007 Planet-Finding Mission to Predict Date of Cosmic CollisionScientists with NASA's planned SIM PlanetQuest expect to pin down the date of a galactic collision billions of years in our future by first reaching back to the Big Bang. |
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December 18, 2006 NASA Telescope Picks Up Glow of Universe's First ObjectsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe. |
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December 5, 2006 NASA Telescope Sees Black Hole Munch on a StarA giant black hole has been caught red-handed dipping into a cosmic cookie jar of stars by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. |
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November 7, 2006 Spitzer and Hubble Create Colorful MasterpieceA new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. |
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November 6, 2006 Mercury Transit Foreshadows Future Planet HuntOn Wednesday, the planet Mercury will cover part of the sun, a phenomenon that demonstrates the method that a future mission will use to find planets around other stars. |
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November 2, 2006 Earth: The Lone Pale Blue Dot?A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with life as we know it. |
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October 27, 2006 Snake on a Galactic Plane!Something scary appears to be slithering across the plane of our Milky Way galaxy in this new Halloween image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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October 26, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Peels Back Layers of Star's ExplosionAstronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that an exploded star, named Cassiopeia A, blew up in a somewhat orderly fashion, retaining much of its original onion-like layering. |
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October 18, 2006 Planet-Finding by NumbersScientists with NASA's SIM PlanetQuest mission, scheduled to launch in the next decade, have calculated how many potentially habitable planets the mission might detect around other stars. |
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October 18, 2006 Busted! Spitzer Nabs Culprit in Galactic Hit-and-RunOur neighboring Andromeda galaxy appears tranquil, but there's new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that it collided head-on with a dwarf galaxy more than 200 million years ago. |
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October 13, 2006 NASA Says: 'Build It and Infrared Surprises Will Come'Engineers are rolling up their sleeves in preparation for building a telescope that will find the nearest star-like objects and the brightest galaxies. |
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October 13, 2006 On the Trail of Other EarthsWhere are other Earths? According to JPL's Dr. Wes Traub, answering that question is the first step in NASA's long-range quest for life around stars beyond our solar system. |
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October 12, 2006 NASA'S Spitzer Sees Day and Night on Exotic WorldNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. |
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October 10, 2006 Asteroids, Comets, Planets: Cut From Same Cloth?Could all of the asteroids, comets, and planets in our Milky Way galaxy be made of a similar mix of dusty components? |
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October 3, 2006 Amazing Andromeda GalaxyThe many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 21, 2006 Balloon Researchers Receive International HonorTwo researchers who led the Boomerang Antarctic balloon experiment, using JPL-developed detectors, have been awarded the 2006 Balzan Prize in Astrophysics. The balloon mission captured the first resolved images of the early universe. |
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September 14, 2006 Puffed-Up Planet Spied at Double StarUsing a network of small, automated telescopes, NASA-funded astronomers have found an odd, bloated planet orbiting one member of a pair of distant stars. |
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September 14, 2006 New Roadmap in Hunt for Alien LifeNASA-funded researchers, including JPL's Wes Traub, have outlined six stages of Earth's life history, which might help identify life elsewhere in the universe. |
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September 12, 2006 'Sleuth' Telescope Snags a Rare Planet TypeA rare planet circling a star 500-light years away has been spotted by astronomers using a telescope whose development was funded by NASA. |
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September 8, 2006 Story of Stellar BirthThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the complex life cycle of young stars |
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August 31, 2006 The Eternal Life of Stardust Portrayed in New NASA ImageA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is helping astronomers understand how stardust is recycled in galaxies. |
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August 23, 2006 NASA Galaxy Hunter: Huge Black Holes Stifle Star FormationSupermassive black holes in some giant galaxies create such a hostile environment, they shut down the formation of new stars, according to NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer findings published in the August 24 issue of Nature. |
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August 18, 2006 JPL Science Team Members Win Top Cosmology PrizeThe 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Dr. John Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer science team, which includes two scientists from JPL. The team is being honored for their groundbreaking studies confirming that our universe was born in a hot Big Bang. |
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August 14, 2006 Spitzer Digs Up Troves of Possible Solar Systems in OrionAstronomers have long scrutinized the vast and layered clouds of the Orion nebula, an industrious star-making factory visible to the naked eye in the sword of the famous hunter constellation. Yet, Orion is still full of secrets. |
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August 1, 2006 Man of Many Hats Not Ready to Hang Any UpKerry Erickson is mission operations and project manager for the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, which is on a mission to do a nearly complete sky survey. |
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July 31, 2006 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Scoops Up Galactic GoodiesNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer dishes up a feast of cool cosmic treats from its first three years in orbit. |
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July 24, 2006 Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on StarsAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround. |
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July 21, 2006 Black Hole Spills Kaleidoscope of ColorA new false-colored image from NASA's Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that has been shot out from a quasar. |
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June 15, 2006 How to Bake a GalaxyStart with lots and lots of dark matter, then stir in gas. Let the mixture sit for a while, and a galaxy should rise up out of the batter. |
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June 8, 2006 Spitzer Helps Solve Mystery of Space DustAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other telescopes think they've found the source of the dust that permeates the universe. New observations indicate the dust comes from supernovas, violent explosions of massive stars. |
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June 5, 2006 Astronomers Find Ancient 'Cities' of GalaxiesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered a grand total of nearly 300 clusters of galaxies, with close to one-third of them as far as 8 to 10 billion light-years away. |
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June 5, 2006 Andromeda Adrift in Sea of Dust in New NASA ImageThe Andromeda galaxy, named for the mythological princess who almost fell prey to a sea monster, appears tranquil in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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May 22, 2006 Pursuing the Invisible With Einstein's LensUsing NASA's future Space Interferometry Mission PlanetQuest space telescope, scientists will use a gravitational effect predicted by Albert Einstein to attempt the first real "sighting" of dark matter. This mysterious stuff is thought to constitute 90 percent of the galaxy. |
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May 22, 2006 Astronomy Honor for Twin TelescopesThe Two Micron All-Sky Survey, twin ground-based telescopes that completed the first high-resolution digital survey of the infrared sky, is being honored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The survey was primarily funded by NASA. |
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May 12, 2006 Spitzer Spies Remnants of a Shy StarBig stars usually aren't shy about anything, not even death. At the end of their lives, they throw explosive tantrums, called supernovae, flinging abundant amounts of hot gas and radiation into space. |
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May 9, 2006 Spitzer Scientist to Give Prestigious Darwin LectureDr. Michael Werner, project scientist of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been selected to give the Royal Astronomical Society's distinguished 2006 George Darwin Lecture. |
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April 26, 2006 Galaxies Don Mask of Stars in New Spitzer ImageA pair of dancing galaxies appears dressed for a cosmic masquerade in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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April 6, 2006 NASA Picks Contractor to Chill Space Telescope InstrumentNASA has awarded a subcontract to Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, Calif., to develop an ultra-cold mechanical helium cryocooler for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. |
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April 5, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Finds Hints of Planet Birth Around Dead StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. |
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March 21, 2006 Spitzer Goes on a Cosmic SafariAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have conducted a cosmic safari to seek out a rare galactic species. Ultimately, the expedition resulted in quite a catch - the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen, located 9 billion light-years away. |
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March 16, 2006 Galaxy on Fire! NASA's Spitzer Reveals Stellar SmokeWhere there's smoke, there's fire - even in outer space. |
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March 15, 2006 Odd Twist Near Milky Way CenterAstronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The part of the nebula the astronomers observed stretches 80 light years in length. |
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February 22, 2006 Future Space Telescope Will Build a Better Guide to the GalaxyHow big is our galaxy? Where, exactly, are we located? NASA's future SIM PlanetQuest space telescope will help answer these and other fundamental questions, laying the foundation for a real-life guide to the galaxy. |
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February 22, 2006 Closest Alien World to Be Directly DetectedAstronomers have used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to detect a strong flow of heat radiation from a toasty planet orbiting a nearby star. |
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February 15, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Finds Violent Galaxies Smothered in 'Crushed Glass'NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a rare population of colliding galaxies whose entangled hearts are wrapped in tiny crystals resembling crushed glass. |
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February 8, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Uncovers Hints of Mega Solar SystemsNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust. |
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January 25, 2006 New Technique, New Body FoundUsing a relatively new planet-hunting technique, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star other than our sun. |
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January 11, 2006 NASA's Spitzer Finds Possible Comet Dust Around Dead StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star G29-38, which died approximately 500 million years ago. |
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January 11, 2006 Cartwheel Galaxy Makes Waves in New NASA ImageA new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer completes a multi-wavelength, neon-colored portrait of the enormous Cartwheel galaxy after a smaller galaxy plunged through it, triggering ripples of sudden, brief star formation. |
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January 10, 2006 Spitzer Captures Our Galaxy's Bustling CenterA new infrared mosaic from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a stunning view of the stellar hustle and bustle that takes place at our Milky Way galaxy's center. |
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January 9, 2006 Local Galactic TreasuresFrom sparkling blue rings to dazzling golden disks, Galaxy Evolution Explorer scientists have gathered a collection of their finest galactic treasures. Mined from the mission's Survey of Nearby Galaxies data, these cosmic gems were collected with the telescope's sensitive ultraviolet instruments. |
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December 20, 2005 Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. |
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December 13, 2005 Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest SecretsAstronomers used Spitzer's heat-seeking infrared eyes to gaze at the dust-drenched plane of our galaxy. |
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November 29, 2005 A Planet With Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic OddballPlanets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs. |
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November 17, 2005 Astronomers Assemble Fine Collection of 'Einstein Rings'You can look but you can't touch the new rings discovered by JPLer Dr. Leonidas Moustakas and his colleagues. The team used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to locate, among other objects, galaxies whose light has been warped into circles called "Einstein rings." |
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November 16, 2005 A View of Chaotic Star BirthLocated 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula called NGC 1333 epitomizes the beautiful chaos of stars being born. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can detect the infrared light from these objects, allowing us to peer inside their dusty cradles. |
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November 9, 2005 Spitzer Captures Cosmic Mountains of CreationA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals billowing mountains of dust ablaze with the fires of stellar youth. |
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November 1, 2005 Black Widow Nebula Hiding in the DustNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's dust-piercing eyes spied a big "Black Widow Nebula" teeming with clusters of massive young stars. The two opposing bubbles are being formed in opposite directions by the powerful outflows from massive groups of forming stars. |
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October 27, 2005 A Picture is Worth Billions of YearsNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope snapped this false-color image of the Tadpole galaxy, which is the result of a recent galactic interaction. |
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October 20, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Finds Failed Stars May Succeed in Planet BusinessNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted the very beginnings of what might become planets around the puniest of celestial orbs - brown dwarfs, or "failed stars." |
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October 13, 2005 Lady in Red: Andromeda Galaxy Shines in Spitzer's EyesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a stunning infrared view of Messier 31, the famous spiral galaxy also known as Andromeda. |
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September 29, 2005 NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like PlanetsAre we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other "suns" that might harbor life? |
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September 27, 2005 NASA Finds 'Big Baby' Galaxies in Newborn UniverseNASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant galaxies. |
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September 12, 2005 Cultivating a Planetary Garden: How Long Does it Take?According to the most popular theory of planet formation, planets are akin to redwood trees, growing in size very gradually. |
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September 7, 2005 NASA's Spitzer and Deep Impact Build Recipe for Comet SoupWhen Deep Impact smashed into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, it released the ingredients of our solar system's primordial "soup." |
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August 25, 2005 Spitzer Turns TwoTwo years ago today, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope blasted into the same dark skies it now better understands. |
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August 22, 2005 The Story Before the Story of Extrasolar PlanetsA JPL scientist and his team are preparing to bring to the study of extrasolar planets what George Lucas brought to "Star Wars": the prequel. |
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August 3, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Finds Hidden, Hungry Black HolesMost of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed doors – until now. |
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August 2, 2005 NASA's Planet Hunt Website En EspanolSpanish-speaking space aficionados can track the latest news in the hunt for planets around other stars, thanks to a new NASA website. |
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July 28, 2005 Spitzer Finds Life Components in Young UniverseNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster. |
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July 25, 2005 NASA Telescope Reveals Nearby Galaxy's Invisible ArmsA new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows that a galaxy once thought to be rather plain and old is actually endowed with a gorgeous set of young spiral arms. |
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July 13, 2005 NASA Scientist Finds World With Triple SunsetsA NASA-funded astronomer has discovered a world where the sun sets over the horizon, followed by a second sun and then a third. |
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July 6, 2005 Deep ImpactA picture of Tempel 1(left) taken by Deep Impact's medium-resolution camera is shown next to data of the comet taken by the spacecraft's infrared spectrometer. |
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June 20, 2005 Cool Star Shows for Hot Summer NightsAs the mercury shoots upward and lazy summer days stretch into balmy evenings, NASA is teaming with amateur astronomy clubs across the country to share the wonders of the nighttime skies with the public. |
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May 31, 2005 NASA Telescope Catches Surprise Ultraviolet Light ShowAt 2 p.m. Pacific time on April 24, 2004, the detectors on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer ultraviolet space telescope nearly overloaded when the star abruptly brightened by a factor of at least 10,000. |
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May 31, 2005 Spitzer Captures Fruits of Massive Stars' LaborsThe saga of how a few monstrous stars spawned a diverse community of additional stars is told in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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May 4, 2005 Hats Off to Space Day From NASA's Spitzer Space TelescopeNASA salutes Space Day, observed this year on May 5, with a new dramatic image of the Sombrero galaxy. |
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April 20, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Sees Signs of Alien Asteroid BeltNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be the dusty spray of asteroids banging together in a belt that orbits a star like our Sun. |
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March 22, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary ScienceNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time captured the light from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. |
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March 1, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic HideoutsHow do you hide something as big and bright as a galaxy? You smother it in cosmic dust. |
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February 22, 2005 Spitzer Space Telescope Provides Visual Feast OnlineThe magic of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope comes alive in an online interactive presentation. |
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February 7, 2005 Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar SystemMoons circle planets, and planets circle stars. Now, astronomers have learned that planets may also circle celestial bodies almost as small as planets. |
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January 25, 2005 New Technique, New Body FoundUsing a relatively new planet-hunting technique, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star other than our sun. |
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January 12, 2005 Spitzer Finds Stellar Incubators with Massive Star EmryosNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered a hatchery for massive stars. |
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January 11, 2005 New Clues Found in Ongoing Mystery of Giant Galactic BlobsAstronomers have numerous technical terms and numbering systems for describing the universe, but one type of mysterious object has yet to be classified. |
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January 10, 2005 Spitzer Sees Dusty Aftermath of Pluto-Sized CollisionAstronomers say a dusty disc swirling around the nearby star Vega is bigger than earlier thought. |
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December 21, 2004 Aging Universe May Still be Spawning Massive GalaxiesNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted what appear to be massive "baby" galaxies in our corner of the universe. Previously, astronomers thought the universe's birth rate had dramatically declined and only small galaxies were forming. |
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December 9, 2004 Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary SystemsTwo of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary debris around stars the size of our Sun. |
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November 9, 2004 Spitzer Sees Ice and Warm Glows in Dark and Dusty PlacesTwo new results from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope released today are helping astronomers better understand how stars form out of thick clouds of gas and dust, and how the molecules in those clouds ultimately become planets. |
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October 21, 2004 Keck Team to Make Stars 'Disappear'The technological magicians at JPL and the Keck Observatory are a step closer to performing a vanishing act on a cosmic scale. |
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October 18, 2004 Astronomers Discover Planet Building is Big MessPlanets are built over a long period of massive collisions between rocky bodies as big as mountain ranges, astronomers announced today. |
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October 12, 2004 Newfound Star Cluster May Be Final Milky Way 'Fossil'Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy's "fossils," they've discovered a new one in the galactic equivalent of our own backyard. |
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October 6, 2004 NASA Approves Mission to Seek Nearest Stars, Brightest GalaxiesA new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe. |
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October 6, 2004 Great Observatories May Unravel 400-Year-Old Supernova MysteryFour hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the discoverer of the laws of planetary motion, were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets. |
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October 6, 2004 The History of Johannes KeplerFour centuries ago, an evening's entertainment was as simple as stepping out to gaze at the night sky. But among the world's many star watchers, one man stood apart. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a mathematician and physicist who not only observed, but also sought to explain the celestial dance above. |
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September 7, 2004 Spitzer Arrives at Scene of Galactic CollisionNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major galactic collision and witnessed not death, but a teeming nest of life. |
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August 31, 2004 Scientists Discover First of a New Class of Extrasolar PlanetsAstronomers announced today the first discovery of a new class of planets beyond our solar system about 10 to 20 times the size of Earth - far smaller than any previously detected. |
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August 9, 2004 Dying Star Goes Out With a RingA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious doughnut-shaped ring. |
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August 6, 2004 Planet Survey: Knocking on Heaven's DoorThe Milky Way is a big, diverse neighborhood. And if you're hoping to find Earthlike planets that may harbor life, you'll need to figure out a way to narrow the search. |
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July 30, 2004 Notes from the GalaxiesChris Martin is a physicist. It might have been otherwise. As a life passion, music has always been a close second. Now, as principal investigator for the Galaxy Evolution Explorer project which studies the universe in ultraviolet light, Martin is a scientist and manager by day, classical pianist by night. |
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July 29, 2004 NASA Selects Future Mission Concepts for StudyNASA has selected nine studies, including one from JPL, to investigate new ideas for future mission concepts within its Astronomical Search for Origins Program. |
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June 28, 2004 Seeing Double: Spitzer Captures Our Galaxy's TwinWhat would our Milky Way galaxy look like if we could travel outside it and snap a picture? It might look a lot like a new image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of a spiral galaxy called NGC 7331 - a virtual twin of our Milky Way. |
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June 1, 2004 Spitzer Spies Parallelogram-Shaped Galactic MealPeering into the "gut" of the galaxy Centaurus A, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured in unprecedented detail this massive galaxy's last big meal: a spiral galaxy twisted into a parallelogram-shaped structure of dust. |
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June 1, 2004 Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden ObjectsAstronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today and announced the detection of distant objects -- including several supermassive black holes -- that are nearly invisible in even the deepest images from telescopes operating at other wavelengths. |
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June 1, 2004 Spitzer Spies Parallelogram-Shaped Galactic MealPeering into the "gut" of the galaxy Centaurus A, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured in unprecedented detail this massive galaxy's last big meal: a spiral galaxy twisted into a parallelogram-shaped structure of dust. |
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May 31, 2004 Spitzer Space Telescope Sets Infrared Eyes on Dark MatterTen years ago, a group of astronomers set out to find invisible, or dark, matter in the outer fringes of our galaxy. |
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May 27, 2004 Raw Ingredients for Life Detected in Planetary Construction ZonesNASA has announced new findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope, including the discovery of significant amounts of icy organic materials sprinkled throughout several "planetary construction zones," or dusty planet-forming discs, which circle infant stars. |
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May 11, 2004 NASA Spitzer Shares The WealthLike a philanthropist donating a prized collection to a museum, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has opened a virtual vault rich with scientific data. |
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May 10, 2004 Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet FinderIncluded in the nation's new vision for space is a plan for NASA to "conduct advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars." |
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April 28, 2004 Published Paper Probes Pulsar PairThe only known gravitationally bound pair of pulsars -- extremely dense, spinning stars that beam radio waves -- may be pirouetting around each other in an intricate dance. |
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April 27, 2004 Proof of New State of Matter Is in the JellyIn the community of very tiny particles that make up all matter in the universe, there are two main citizens: bosons and fermions. |
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April 15, 2004 Cosmic Magnifying Glass: Distant Star Reveals PlanetLike Sherlock Holmes holding a magnifying glass to unveil hidden clues, modern day astronomers used cosmic magnifying effects to reveal a planet orbiting a distant star. |
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April 13, 2004 Invisible Giants Exposed in New Spitzer ImageHidden behind a curtain of dusty darkness lurks one of the most violent pockets of star birth in our galaxy. |
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March 8, 2004 NASA Creates Portrait of Life and Death in the UniverseIn a small nearby galaxy lies a luminous cloud of gas and dust, called a nebula, which houses a family of newborn stars. |
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February 24, 2004 'And the Laurel Goes to... the Spitzer Space Telescope'Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine has honored the teams that built NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope with a 2003 Aerospace Laurel award. |
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February 19, 2004 Spacecraft to Launch, Designed to Harpoon Cosmic 'Moby Dick'Like the massive white whale in Herman Melville's 1851 classic "Moby Dick," comets have long been considered swift, elusive harbingers of change. |
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February 12, 2004 Spitzer Telescope Sends a Rose for Valentine's DayOut of the dark and dusty cosmos comes an unusual valentine — a stellar nursery resembling a shimmering pink rosebud. |
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January 21, 2004 Astronomers Measure Distance to Well-Known StarThe cluster of stars known as the Pleiades is one of the most recognizable objects in the night sky, and for millennia has been celebrated in literature and legend. |
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January 13, 2004 Stormy Cloud of Star Birth Glows in New Spitzer ImageA dusty stellar nursery shines brightly in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
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December 18, 2003 NASA Announces New Name for Space Infrared Telescope FacilityNASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced that NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has been renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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December 18, 2003 NASA Releases Dazzling Images From New Space TelescopeA new window to the universe has opened with today's release of the first dazzling images from NASA's newly named Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
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December 10, 2003 Mission Captures Galaxies GaloreThe most sensitive and comprehensive ultraviolet image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy, has been captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. |
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November 21, 2003 Final Death Throes of Nearby Star Witnessed First-HandIt takes only a few hundred to a thousand years for a dying Sun-like star, many billions of years old, to transform into a dazzling, glowing cloud called a planetary nebula. |
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November 21, 2003 Our Amazing Universe: Vote for Your Favorite ImageYou're invited to help NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrate 10 years of dazzling imagery of the universe from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. |
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November 18, 2003 Largest pair of 'eyes' ever built to aid search for planetsFully assembled, the Large Binocular Telescope resembles a face, gazing skyward with a pair of enormous saucer eyes. |
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November 7, 2003 Two Cosmic Explorers Named ‘Best of What's New'Two recently launched NASA missions won "Best of What's New" awards from Popular Science magazine. |
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October 28, 2003 JPL Scientists Receive NASA Fundamental Physics GrantsFour scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, along with 11 other researchers, have been awarded NASA grants totaling more than $6.4 million over four years, to conduct space fundamental physics research. |
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October 23, 2003 JPL Researchers Unveil Superconductor-Based Light DetectorA new and improved way to measure light has been unveiled by physicists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, both in Pasadena, Calif. |
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October 20, 2003 Missing Link Sought in Planetary EvolutionJust as anthropologists sought "the missing link" between apes and humans, astronomers are embarking on a quest for a missing link in planetary evolution. |
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October 14, 2003 Cosmic Jets Whoosh into Free Public LecturesCosmic jets -- a common but mysterious phenomenon in the universe -- will be the topic of two free lectures to be held on Thurs., October 16 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, and Fri., October 17 at Pasadena City College. |
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October 13, 2003 Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission StatusThe Space Infrared Telescope Facility, NASA's fourth and final Great Observatory, has been successfully focused. |
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October 1, 2003 A Galaxy Far, Far Away Eyed by Linked Hawaiian TelescopesA galaxy far beyond our own Milky Way, with a monstrous, churning black hole in its center, has been observed by two optical telescopes working in unison as an interferometer. |
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September 11, 2003 Lab Research Yields the Biggest ChillNASA-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded -- one-half-billionth degree above absolute zero. |
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September 3, 2003 Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission StatusNASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has switched on two of its onboard instruments and captured some preliminary star-studded images. |
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August 25, 2003 Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission StatusFollowing last night's picture-perfect launch, NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility is positioned exactly where ground controllers want it to be, trailing behind Earth as it orbits the Sun. |
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August 25, 2003 Space Infrared Telescope Facility Lifts OffNASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility successfully launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:35:39 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:35:39 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, August 24) aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. |
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August 19, 2003 Infrared -- Catch the WaveWhen you pick up that TV remote to switch to your favorite channel, you''re riding a wave--an infrared wave. |
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July 25, 2003 Intriguing Celestial Images Arrive from Galaxy MissionNASA/'s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has beamed back revealing images of hundreds of galaxies to expectant astronomers, providing the first batch of data on star formation that they had hoped for. |
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July 22, 2003 Tiny Measurement Gives Big Boost to Planet HuntTo detect the stellar wobble caused by a planet as small as Earth, scientists need an instrument of almost unbelievable sensitivity. |
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July 11, 2003 Dr. Gary Blackwood, Interferometer Systems ManagerIn this video profile, Dr. Gary Blackwood explains how this future mission will look for signs of other worlds like ours. |
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June 9, 2003 Scope Out NASA's Space Observatory FinaleAn upcoming mission that will study the darkest and dustiest regions in the cosmos will be explored in two free lectures to be held on Thursday, June 12, at JPL, and Friday, June 13, at Pasadena City College. |
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May 27, 2003 Theatre in the RectangleThe great sculptor gravity ensures that larger, denser objects in the universe -- like stars, planets and moons -- take on the familiar spherical shape. |
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May 21, 2003 Frozen Light: Cool NASA Research Holds PromiseNASA-funded research at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., that literally stops light in its tracks, may someday lead to breakneck-speed computers that shelter enormous amounts of data from hackers. |
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May 20, 2003 Newly Discovered Star May Be Third-ClosestThe local celestial neighborhood just got more crowded with a discovery of a star that may be the third closest to the Sun. |
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May 6, 2003 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission StatusNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer successfully opened its telescope cover this morning at 4:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (1:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time). |
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April 28, 2003 Galaxy Evolution Explorer On Its WayNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft was successfully launched today from a Pegasus XL rocket released by an L-1011 aircraft off the coast of Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Station at 7:59:57 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (4:59:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time). |
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April 22, 2003 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Looks Back in TimeNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer will carry a telescope into Earth orbit that will observe a million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history to help astronomers determine when the stars we see today had their origins. |
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April 21, 2003 Shedding Light on the UniverseThe universe has been described as a symphony of light. And just as any piece of music is comprised of individual notes up and down the musical scale, the dazzling display of light from celestial sources is made up of photons, or "packets" of light, scaled by energy along the electromagnetic spectrum. |
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April 2, 2003 NASA Researchers Put New Spin on Einstein's Relativity TheoryAlbert Einstein might be astonished to learn that NASA physicists have applied his relativity theory to a concept he introduced but later disliked namely that two particles that interact could maintain a connection even if separated by a vast distance. |
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March 27, 2003 The Sky's the Limit: Grand Finale for Twin-Telescope SurveyThe celestial harvest from astronomy's most thorough high-resolution digital survey of the entire sky, completed by twin infrared telescopes, is now online for scientists to scrutinize and the entire world to savor. |
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March 27, 2003 Cosmic Objects -- Something Old and Something NewWhen the French astronomer Charles Messier was trying to discover new comets in the mid-18th century, he compiled a list of about 100 diffuse objects that, to his eye, could be confused with comets. |
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March 25, 2003 Space Observatory to Study the Old, the Cold and the DustyA NASA observatory will soon open a new window to the universe. |
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March 17, 2003 Observatory Boldly Goes Where the Human Eye CannotEquipped with advanced infrared technology, NASA will peer into unknown territories of the universe with the long-anticipated Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
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March 6, 2003 Space Infrared Telescope Facility Arrives at KSCThe Space Infrared Telescope Facility arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for its launch next month aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. |
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January 27, 2003 The Keys to the Stellar KingdomThe Space Interferometry Mission will provide the breakthrough technology needed to pinpoint these two extremes of stellar evolution. |
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January 21, 2003 A Cosmic Identity CrisisNature defies categorization. Think of the platypus, a curious creature that lays eggs like a bird but suckles its young like a mammal. |
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December 3, 2002 Kuiper Prize Going to JPL Pioneer in Radar Study of AsteroidsOstro studies asteroids as a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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November 20, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor ShowerDr. James Breckinridge has returned to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. to serve as the Origins Theme Technologist for NASA's Origins Program. |
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November 15, 2002 Dr. Michelle Thaller, AstrophysicistIn this video profile 'First Person,' Caltech astrophysicist Dr. Michelle Thaller discusses methods astronomers use to study stars and galaxies. |
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November 14, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor ShowerThe early morning hours of Nov. 19 may be your last chance to see the spectacular Leonid meteor shower in its full glory, according to astronomers. |
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November 4, 2002 NASA's Stardust Comet-Chaser Passes Asteroid TestAll systems on NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed successfully when tested in a flyby of asteroid Annefrank on Friday |
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November 4, 2002 Building Planets in CyberspaceRecipe: Take a rocky mass [about 12.8 thousand kilometers (nearly 8 thousand miles) wide], add carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane. Place in stable, circular orbit, the same distance from a sunlike star as the distance between Earth and the Sun. |
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November 2, 2002 Stardust Mission StatusImages and information from the flyby period are being transmitted from the spacecraft today and through the coming week. |
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October 16, 2002 Stardust Mission Status"This is an engineering test," said Thomas Duxbury, project manager for Stardust at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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July 30, 2002 Planet-hunting Among the StarsNASA scientists are trying to answer that age-old question 'Are we alone?' by looking at other celestial bodies that might have life, with much of their search concentrated on finding Earthlike planets orbiting other stars. |
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June 10, 2002 Space Observatory Phones Home with South African CenterImmediately after the Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches in January 2003, mission planners anticipate a four-hour communication gap when their tracking system won't be able to talk to the observatory. |
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May 28, 2002 The Infrared Sky Goes DigitalWould it be possible to see the entire sky without ever stepping outside? Well, if you have access to a computer, the answer would be yes, thanks to the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), the most detailed digital map of the heavens ever made. |
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May 13, 2002 Peering into the Heart of GalaxiesNew technologies are helping astronomers unlock the mysteries of our Milky Way galaxy and the billions of other galaxies in our universe. |
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April 1, 2002 A Mission Brings Black Holes to LightSpace exploration requires a great deal of imagination. With the international Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry mission, supported by NASA until last month, a global team of scientists and engineers not only imagined a telescope larger than Earth. |
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March 5, 2002 Shedding Light on Black HolesIf there were monsters in space, they might appear as black holes - bottomless pits of gravity that rip holes in the fabric of time and space, swallowing up entire stars. Nothing - not even light - can escape. |
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November 26, 2001 A Star is BornVast clouds of gas and dust are swirling throughout our Milky Way galaxy. Some of these clouds are stellar nurseries, places where thousands of stars like our Sun are being born right now. |
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October 8, 2001 A Close-Up View of Planetary BirthEarly next year, scientists hope to gain insight into conditions that precede planet birth by deploying a powerful new instrument: the Keck Interferometer. |
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September 10, 2001 JPL's Eye on the UniverseOur eyes have feasted on a steady stream of dazzling celestial pictures over the past seven years, thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. |
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January 28, 2001 Looking for Life's Imprint -- Light Years AwayThe discovery of more than 70 planets outside our solar system within less than a decade has brought a new sense of immediacy to the search for life. |
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January 14, 2001 When the Dust Settles, Solar Systems EmergeIf video technology had been around when our solar system formed nearly five billion years ago, here's what would have been caught on tape. |
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