NASA’S Spitzer Sees Crystal “Rain” In Outer Clouds Of Infant Star

Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning…

NASA To Launch New Science Mission To Asteroid In 2016

NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to…

Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot Of Black Hole Jets

An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced…

NASA’S Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive

A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led…

Cassini Spacecraft And Ground Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a Chilean ground telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm…

Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars

Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone…

NASA Announces News Briefing On Aquarius/Sac-D Mission

NASA will hold a news briefing on Tuesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the…

NASA Spacecraft’s Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon

New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten…

NASA Event To Showcase Sofia Science, Education Projects

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program will showcase its science and education efforts to…

NASA’s Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories

NASA's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general…