NASA’s Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20…
Category: Away Out There
Curiosity Rover Delivers Billion-Pixel View of Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover delivers the first gigapixel image from the Red Planet's surface in a panoramic view…
Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk–The Threat of ‘Understory’ Fires
'Understory' fires are destroying more of the Amazon rainforest than is being lost through deforestation, NASA scientists have…
Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption
Documenting a spectacular solar eruption and the Hubble Telescope's sighting of the remains of a star gone supernova.…
NASA’S Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn
DISTANT WORLDS--Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that…
Fallen Stars: A Gallery of Famous Meteorites
The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia's Ural Mountains on Feb. 15 is only the latest of…
Saturn’s Titan Moon Gets a Dune ‘Makeover’
The craters of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, are being erased as they're filled with dunes of exotic hydrocarbon…
Dancing the Dance of Stars and Space
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart…
From Earth’s Caves, A Better Understanding of Mars
Dr. Penny Boston is exploring some of the most extreme environments on earth--the Snowy River Cave, the Cave…
NASA’S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in…