NASA’S Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse Of Distant Stars

An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection…

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference To Preview Comet Encounter

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview…

International Team Of Astronomers To Discuss Kepler Findings

The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC) at Aarhus University in Denmark will hold a media teleconference…

NASA’S Hubble Captures First Images Of Aftermath Of Possible Asteroid Collision

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images…

Hubble Astronomers Uncover An Overheated Early Universe

During a period of universal warming 11 billion years ago, quasars -- the brilliant core of…

NASA Symposium Marks 50-Year-Search for Signs of Life in Universe

Media representatives are invited to attend a NASA symposium on Thursday, Oct. 14, from 8 a.m.…

NASA’S WMAP Project Completes Satellite Operations Mission Observed Universe’s Oldest Light

After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has…

NASA’S WISE Mission Warms Up But Keeps Chugging Along

After completing its primary mission to map the infrared sky, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or…

NASA Mission Shows Evolution Of Conditions At Edge Of Solar System

New data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge…

NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie…