SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center

Researchers using NASA's SOFIA flying observatory capture new images of a huge ring of gas and…

Preview 2013

2013 will be another great year for Europe in space with launches and missions in several…

NASA’s Green Aviation Research Throttles Up Into Second Gear

NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies that will…

Layout of the LEON2-FT chip, alias AT697

Boasting a fivefold performance improvement on the ERC32, ESA’s LEON2-FT is once more manufactured by Atmel,…

W40’s cradle of stars

Six hundred newly forming stars are crowded into these colourful filaments of dust that form a…

NASA Selects Construction Management Contractor

NASA has selected Frontier-Arrowhead NASA Services Joint Venture of Kansas City, Mo., to manage and oversee…

Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates

Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit…

National Academy of Sciences Honors Kepler Scientist

William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center, is recipient…

New Chandra Movie Features Neutron Star Action

Unlike with some blockbuster films, the sequel to a movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is…

Galaxy’s Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far From Its Black Hole

In 2011, a months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion…