MESSENGER spacecraft to impact Mercury this month

(NASA) - NASA will hold a media and public event at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 16, to share…

9 years ago

Milky Way as it looked 10 Billion Years ago

(NASA) - In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way…

9 years ago

Impressive CME erupts from the Sun 4/5/15, Expected impact 4/7/15

The Sun erupted with an impressive looking CME as you can see un the set of images above. This  event…

9 years ago

Explore the Universe Using New Hubble Public Research Tools

A new astronomy research tool which makes exploring the universe as easy as pointing and clicking has been released by our…

9 years ago

Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories,…

9 years ago

NASA’s DAWN Spacecraft spots mysterious lights on CERES

As the Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet CERES it takes ever clearer images. In this image taken from 29,000 miles…

9 years ago

RIP Leonard Nimoy, Spock.

Like so many of us I grew up with Star Trek and Mr. Spock. I cannot begin to tell you how…

9 years ago

Hubble finds dust forming young planet around new star

(NASA) - Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery…

9 years ago

Bright Fireball seen over New York, Ohio area

(NASA) - A very bright fireball seen over New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania at 4:45:17 EST this morning, February 17th.…

9 years ago

Visualization of the Protoplanetary Disk Around HL Tau

(Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo) - Here we show a test of a simple code to analyze and visualize…

9 years ago