Small Planets Don't Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.
NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched this morning over the central Pacific, beginning its...
One Ring to Bring Them All: Eclipse Enchants Grand Canyon Audiences
The strange transformation of sunbeams into rings of light after...
NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site
This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory...
NASA'S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare
During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new tool for...
Sforzi concentrati sul lancio delle missioni Sentinel dell'ESA
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Black Hole Growth Found To Be Out Of Sync
New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.
WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home
This image shows our own back yard, astronomically speaking, from a vantage point about 30 light-years away from the sun...
