08.14.09 - Solar physicists at NASA have confirmed that small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, cause temperatures in the thin, translucent gas of the sun's atmosphere to reach millions of degrees.
08.12.09 - Groundwater beneath northern India’s farms and cities has been disappearing. Hydrologists, like NASA's Matt Rodell, have been hunting for it.
08.10.09 - A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas.
08.06.09 - When NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) leaves Earth in November 2009 onboard an Atlas V rocket, the thunderous launch will trigger an avalanche...of data.
08.05.09 - Fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today.
08.05.09 - An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe.
08.03.09 - The new piece from Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio could be considered for an Oscar if it does well at the SIGGRAPH exhibition the week of August 3.
07.28.09 - The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
07.24.09 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19.
07.24.09 - One researcher has used a decade's worth of NASA satellite data to revise old models of plankton blooms in the North Atlantic.