<p></p> <p>As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets
AAVSO Alert Notice 511<br /> Monitoring requested for developing planetary systems dust production study<br /> March 14, 2015 <p>Dr. George Rieke (University of Arizona) and colleagues have requested AAVSO assistance in monitoring four
<p></p> <p>The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the “habitable zone” around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like
<p></p> <p>A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has reached an impressive milestone. In less than a year, citizen scientists
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. Infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope of these blackest-of-black regions
<p>I remember being glued to the TV just after Christmas in 1977 as Carl Sagan delivered that years’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This was in the days before Video Cassette
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Titan, Europa, Io and Phobos are just a few members of our solar system’s pantheon of moons. Are there are other moons out there, orbiting planets beyond our
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org.</p> <p>Disk
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research.</p> <p>Our sun is a carbon-poor star, and as result, our planet Earth is