NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, and found it definitely lives up to…
Read the articleSaturn’s icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft. Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has…
Read the articleSatellites, astronauts and experiments are constantly observing our planet and beaming information back to us. Navigation satellites tell us where we are, observation satellites can tell…
Read the articleMy thanks to Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association for letting me know about this. All astronomers know that Planetary Nebulae have absolutely nothing to…
Read the articleMedia are invited to a formal dedication ceremony to mark the renaming of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, formerly the Dryden Flight Research Center, on Tuesday,…
Read the articleA state-of-the-art ‘Mars yard’ is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018.…
Read the articleHow do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know the…
Read the articleESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January. These two ‘first light’ images…
Read the articleComet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet, discovered in 2013, was within the radius of Jupiter’s orbit when…
Read the articleAbout 50 people from 11 U.S. states will attend a two-day NASA Social, to be held April 1 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,…
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