This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data…
Read the articleThis collage includes a compilation of artist’s concepts depicting milestones from the Kepler mission. Image credit: NASA Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced…
Read the articleNASA is exploring options for innovative and imaginative uses of two large space telescopes recently transferred to the agency. In a request for information (RFI) published…
Read the articleNASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning…
Read the articleAstronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching…
Read the articleWhat would you do if you had access to Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-100 space telescopes? Dr. Vlada Stamenkovic, a post-doctoral researcher at MIT who works on exoplanets…
Read the articleThe European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the winners of an international public contest called Hubble’s Hidden Treasures. Budding amateur astronomers were invited to create beautiful…
Read the articleAstronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The…
Read the articleIs it a magnetar or is it a pulsar? A second member of a rare breed of dead, spinning star has been identified thanks to an…
Read the articleSeeing is believing, except when you don’t believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an…
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