<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>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><a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2015-12-a-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Launched in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.2 million observations of more than 38,000 celestial objects.</p> <p>In its 25-year lifetime the telescope has made nearly
<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>In 2015, Hubble will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Check out the new <a href="http://hubble25th.org/" target="_blank">Hubble25 site</a> for a host of festivities centered on Hubble’s history and explorations. The site will
<p></p> <p>For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home,
<p></p> <p>European experts have spotted one of the faintest asteroids ever found – a chunk of space rock thought to be about 100 m in diameter beyond the orbit of Mars.
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>A new survey of galaxies by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is taking a plunge into the deep and uncharted waters of our cosmos. In one of the longest
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids. This type of collision can
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Here on Earth, under the protection of the layers of our atmosphere, we can still find the heat from the Sun sometimes almost unbearable. This is also a