NASA’s Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly…

NASA’s NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg Ahead of March 14 Launch

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday…

Educators Selected to Fly on NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Observatory

Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric…

NASA’s Hubble Breaks New Ground With Distant Supernova Discovery

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow…

NASA’s Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting…

Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages…

NASA’s Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe

An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA's…

NASA’s RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of ‘Bullets’ in a Black Hole’s Jet

Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite and the National Science Foundation's Very Long…

NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes

After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view…

NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Completes Mission Operations

After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation.…