Kepler 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…
Read the articleTag: Nasa Headquarters
View
LCROSS Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice
The LCROSS mission operations team initiated power-up of the LCROSS science payload and saw this view of the moon. NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite,…
Read the articleWater Molecules Discovered on the Moon
NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater…
Read the article
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 articleInteractive 3D Space Station Views
NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on…
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 articleThe Hazards of Severe Space Weather
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences…
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 article