Browse Archive
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SOFIA Imaging Systems Tested During Nighttime Operations
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy science team completed checkout of optical star tracking camera systems and conducted telescope assembly preparation exercises.
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Warped Debris Disks Around Stars Are Blowin’ in the Wind
The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes.
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Chandra's Top 10 Scientific Contributions
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is celebrating 10 years of exploring the invisible universe.
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Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities.
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NASA's WISE Mission Arrives at Launch Site
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has arrived at its last stop on Earth -- Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old
The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.
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Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation
A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.
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Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star.
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Spitzer Sees Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.
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Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe
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.