<p></p> <p>Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of stars in
<p><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/37/image/a/format/web_print/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter — the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system’s outer planets.</p> <p>Collecting these
<p></p> <p>The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Solar System Ambassadors Program (SSA) invites you to apply to become an ambassador to the public for calendar year 2016.</p> <p>Highly motivated individuals will be given
<p><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/tn-p_lorri_fullframe_color.png" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.</p> <p>After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the
<p></p> <p>What’s icy, has “wobbly” potato-shaped moons, and is the world’s best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA’s New Horizons is speeding towards the edge of our solar system
<p></p> <p>The ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12 are captured here in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The strikingly uneven
<p></p> <p>While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.
AAVSO Alert Notice 522<br /> V404 Cyg HST multiwavelength observations scheduled<br /> July 1, 2015<br /> <p>The dramatic outburst of the black hole X-ray transient LMXB V404 Cyg continues. It was detected 2015
<p></p> <p>Astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld remembers a quirky discovery back in 1999. He had just arrived at the Hubble Space Telescope and climbed out of the airlock of Space Shuttle Discovery
<p></p> <p>For a planet, this would be like a day at the spa. After years of growing old, a massive planet could, in theory, brighten up with a radiant, youthful glow.