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NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe
05.20.13 - Scientists seek to gain answers to questions about the formation of stars and galaxies with the launch of the CIBER sounding rocket on June 4 from Wallops.
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Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass
05.17.13 - This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. The matter condensed in such clusters is so high their gravity warps the fabric of spacetime.
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The Joint US–Russian One-Year Mission
05.16.13 - An international collaboration evaluates research protocols for candidate investigations during the planned American/Russian one year increment.
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Galaxy's Ring of Fire
05.16.13 - This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions
05.10.13 - 2MASX is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy which emits a tremendous amount of light at infrared wavelengths. Scientists connect this to intense star formation.
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Successful Launch of FORTIS on May 11
05.13.13 - NASA successfully launched the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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NASA Develops Key to Cosmic Carbon's Evolution
05.14.2013 - Scientists now have the capability to systematically investigate the molecular evolution of cosmic carbon.
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Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted with Planet Debris
05.09.13 - Hubble found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place – the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.
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Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds
05.09.13 - Researchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits.
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Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas
05.07.13 - The supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up hot gas, according to a new study from the Herschel space observatory.