NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7,…

NASA Chandra, Spitzer Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars

By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team…

NASA’s Spitzer Sees Milky Way’s Blooming Countryside

New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more…

NASA’s Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star

A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D…

NASA’s Hubble Will Use Rare Stellar Alignment to Hunt For Planets

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for…

NASA’s Swift Produces Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies

Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most…

NASA’s Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon’s Surface Gravity

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions…

NASA’s WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family…

NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations…

Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies

A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the…