Searching the Heavens for Newborn Stars

SOFIA, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, made its first science flight overnight Wednesday, focusing on the Orion nebula and the Sharpless 140 star cluster...

Venus Holds Warning for Earth

 

New information about a high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide on Venus could be a warning against injecting Earth's atmosphere with sulphur droplets to mitigate climate change...

Mars Rover Construction Webcam Tops Million Viewers

More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October...

NASA Scientist to Speak at Imagination Station About the Amazing

  

A NASA research physicist working on the next generation James Webb Space Telescope, will discuss his work with visitors of the Imagination Station science center in Toledo, Ohio, Saturday...

The Sun Steals Comets from Other Stars

Many of the comets in our Solar System might have come from other stars, say NASA supported researchers. Studying these 'alien' comets could reveal new information about stellar systems far, far away...

A tale of two cities

What do Seattle and New York share in common? Both cities are using satellite data to plan for future climate change...

Camera on Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues in Rocks

A camera installed this month on the robotic arm of NASA's next Mars rover will do close-up inspections for clues to Martian environments, but it can ...

Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space

Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed the presence of particles collected from a small container aboard Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft...

NASA Goes to the Set of CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory'

It all started with a Big Bang. Well, actually, it all started with a beach ball. Not just any beach ball, but one that is printed with data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP...

Yihua Zheng: A New Breed of Weather Forecaster

Yihua Zheng is the lead for NASA's Space Weather Services -- the organization that alerts mission leaders when solar storms are headed towards Earth ...

NASA Chat: Antarctic Fliers, Live!

Researchers have been making flights over Antarctica on NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory to map ice surfaces and the features hidden below. On Thurs., Nov. 18, at 1 p.m. EST, scientists will answer your questions about the mission...

NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole

Observations have revealed that a slowly rotating neutron star with an ordinary surface magnetic field is giving off bursts of X-rays and gamma rays...

Youngest-Ever Nearby Black Hole Discovered

An amazingly young black hole--only 30 years old--has been found in a nearby galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Sunspot 1123 Hurls Filament toward Earth

Active sunspot 1123 erupted during early on Nov. 12, producing a C4-class solar flare and hurling a filament of material in the general direction of ...

Earth's Dust Tail Points to Alien Planets

Did you know Earth has a long tail of dust? It's real, and it could lead researchers to the discovery of distant alien worlds...