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Water abundant in first billion years after Big Bang?
Water vapor could have been just as abundant in pockets of space a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, according to new research.
May 1, 2015
MESSENGER ends mission, crashes into Mercury
Mission control confirmed end of operations at 3:40 p.m. EDT (1934 UTC), when no signal was detected by NASA’s Deep Space Network station at Goldstone.
April 30, 2015
Latest New Horizons images of Pluto
There may be an ice cap at Pluto's pole, as seen in the most recent images from the New Horizons spacecraft, now only 11 weeks from its historic flyby on July 14.
April 29, 2015
Russian cargo craft launched Tuesday, spinning out of control
Unpiloted craft carries 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for International Space Station. Thursday's rendezvous with ISS cancelled. The cargo craft may be lost.
April 28, 2015
Dancing tendrils on sun’s northeast limb
Where heliophysics meets art. Video acquired April 24 and 25, 2015.
April 27, 2015
Names needed in 20 distant solar systems
Deadline for submissions in the NameExoWorlds contest is June 15, 2015. Fifteen stars and 32 planets (47 objects total) in 20 solar systems available for naming.
April 27, 2015
Fly through Hubble’s 25th anniversary image
Fly through the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary image of star cluster Westerlund 2 in 3-D!
April 23, 2015
NASA creates NExSS for life search
A new NASA collaboration will use a systems science approach - looking at the big picture, cutting across different scientific disciplines - to seek alien life.
April 23, 2015
First visible light spectrum from exoplanet
Why are astronomers excited about the first directly obtained visible light spectrum - or rainbow array of visible colors - bounced from the surface of an exoplanet?
April 23, 2015
Ceres’ bright spots back in view
Dawn spacecraft has reacquired images of Spot 5, the mysterious bright double feature on the dwarf planet Ceres. The bright spots look ... as strange as ever.
April 21, 2015
