NASA’s WISE Survey Uncovers Millions Of Black Holes

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes…

NASA’s Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time.

NASA Awards Caltech Five-Year Jet Propulsion Laboratory Contract

NASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena a new five-year contract to manage…

Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes In An Exoplanet Atmosphere

WASHINGTON -- An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made…

New NASA Game Lets Players Build and Launch a Virtual Rocket

With NASA's Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users, you don't…

First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope

The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been…

Small Planets Don’t Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form

New ground-based observations, combined with data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, shows small planets form…

NASA’S NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central…

NASA’S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare

WASHINGTON -- During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected…

Black Hole Growth Found To Be Out Of Sync

New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in…