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Kepler Makes Numerous Discoveries Over Five Years

Exactly five years ago, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable worlds.

10 Mar 2014

Hubble Space Telescope Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Breakup of Asteroid

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces.

7 Mar 2014

Giant Sunspot Appears Over the Sun's Horizon

A giant sunspot – a magnetically strong and complex region on the sun's surface – has just appeared over the sun's horizon. This is the third trip for this region across the face of the sun, which takes approximately 27 days to make a complete rotation.

3 Mar 2014

Antarctic Telescope Identifies Giant Gas Cloud in an Early Stage of Formation

Using a telescope installed at the driest place on earth - Ridge A in Antarctica – a UNSW-led team of researchers has identified a giant gas cloud which appears to be in an early stage of formation.

21 Feb 2014

Giant Magellan Telescope Project Enters Construction Phase

The international consortium of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project has passed two major reviews and is positioned to enter the construction phase. When completed, the 25-meter GMT will have more than six times the collecting area of the largest telescopes today and ten times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

20 Feb 2014

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes Spot New Distant Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have spotted what might be one of the most distant galaxies known, harkening back to a time when our universe was only about 650 million years old (our universe is 13.8 billion years old).

10 Feb 2014

UA/Lockheed Martin-Built NIRCam to be Integrated with James Webb Space Telescope Hardware

An infrared camera designed with University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin know-how, which will form the heart of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has joined three other instruments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to be mounted in the nascent telescope structure.

4 Feb 2014

Comet 2013 A1 Siding Spring Slated to Make a Close Pass by Mars

This spring, NASA will be paying cautious attention to a comet that could put on a barnstorming show at Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.

30 Jan 2014

Green Bank Telescope Reveals River of Hydrogen Flowing Through Space

Using the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space. This very faint, very tenuous filament of gas is streaming into the nearby galaxy NGC 6946 and may help explain how certain spiral galaxies keep up their steady pace of star formation.

28 Jan 2014

James Webb Space Telescope Passes Spacecraft Critical Design Review Milestone

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014 -- a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing control systems.

27 Jan 2014