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Star's 'Cry' Heralds New Era for Testing Relativity
08.02.12 - Researchers have observed a distinctive X-ray signal following a black hole's eruption that comes from matter on the verge of falling into it.
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Hubble Sees a Galaxy Festooned with Stellar Nurseries
07.27.12 - The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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NuSTAR Mission Status Report
07.27.12 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) passed its Post-Launch Assessment Review at JPL this week, clearing the way for the mission to enter into its science operations phase in the next month.
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Hubble Has an Audience of Stellar Flashbulbs
07.20.12 - Hubble captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashes of the audience’s cameras.
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Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth
07.18.12 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
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Hubble Sees the Needle Galaxy, Edge-on and Up Close
07.13.12 - NGC 4565 has been nicknamed the Needle Galaxy because, when seen in full, it appears as a very narrow streak of light on the sky.
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Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies
07.10.12 - Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint galaxies in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. Hubble is helping solve the mystery of these star-starved galaxies.
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New Instrument Sifts Starlight for New Worlds
07.09.12 - "Dark holes" around stars will provide astronomers with windows for finding planets.
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The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust
07.05.12 - Astronomers have discovered that vast amounts of planetary dust, enough to fill the inner portions of a solar system, have suddenly vanished.
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Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket
07.03.12 - Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen.