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January 15, 2009 Spitzer Finds Dust Around Primitive StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, enlivening a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust. |
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January 7, 2009 Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'JPLer Raghvendra Sahai and colleagues found several runaway stars, racing through space like bullets. |
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January 7, 2009 Latest Astronomy Conference Update: Balloon MissionNews from the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Long Beach, Calif. |
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January 7, 2009 Planet-Finding Mission Arrives in FloridaNASA's Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in March on a journey to search for other Earths, arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
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January 5, 2009 Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet BirthObservations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. |
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December 22, 2008 What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us About Dark Energy?About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. |
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December 18, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to FloridaEngineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. |
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December 18, 2008 Hubble Eyes Jupiter-Ganymede ComboThe JPL-developed and -built Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Jupiter with its moon Ganymede. |
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December 16, 2008 Planets Living on the EdgeA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. |
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December 10, 2008 Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar BulbsIt's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun. |
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December 9, 2008 Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar PlanetNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. |
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December 8, 2008 Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space ImageA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. |
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December 3, 2008 Vivid Death of a StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to this view of the remains of a star whose death was witnessed on Earth centuries ago. |
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November 20, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Chips In To Galactic Core PortraitJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies. |
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November 20, 2008 Magazine Honors a Star of NuSTARPrincipal investigators for two JPL-managed missions -- Fiona Harrison of Caltech, with the NuSTAR mission, and Maria Zuber of MIT, with the Grail moon mission -- are honored by U.S. News & World Report as two of "America's Best Leaders." |
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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Discovery |
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Rover Naming Contest |
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To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before |
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Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming |
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Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida |
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