The Kepler Mission
NASA’s Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday.…
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James Webb Telescope Planet Search
An artist’s concept of an exoplanet. Image credit: ESO. January 14, 2010: The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch…
Read the articleKepler Space Telecope Discovers Five Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond…
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First Images From Rejuvinated Hubble Space Telescope
September 9, 2009: Astronomers have declared NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of observations from four of its six operating science…
Read the articleThe Herschel-Planck Mission
Herschel opened its ‘eyes’ on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, ‘the whirlpool galaxy’ for a first test observation.…
Read the articleKepler Mission Launches
NASA’s Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
Read the articleSolar Dynamics Observatory Is Launched
SDO Observatory – click for larger image NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on…
Read the articleNASA Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy. To commemorate 400 years of exploring the universe, 2009 has…
Read the articleHubble Space Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on Extrasolar Planet
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical…
Read the articleThe James Webb Telescope
New Technologies for James Webb Space Telescope Approved Early More than a year ahead of schedule, a team of independent experts has approved all ten new…
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