NASA’s Kepler Mission Extended to 2016
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the Agency’s Senior Review of its operating missions.. The…
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Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high
Mars’ Whirling Dust Devil A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) high was captured winding its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March…
New Surface Features Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and reveal unusual…
Small Black Hole causes 2 Million MPH wind
NASA’s Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar Mass Black Hole WASHINGTON – Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around…
First Planck all-sky carbon monoxide (CO) image
All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace…
Hubble Telescope makes over one million observations
This is an artist’s concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a “hot Jupiter” class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our sun. Hubble Space Telescope’smillionth science…
Portrait of a Doomed Asteroid
Source NASA – A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory for several years in the region of Sagittarius A*, or…
New planet in habitable zone found, could harbor life!
New planet best example yet of planet in habitable zone. An International research team analyzed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star known as GJ 667C. The researchers…
