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NASA Announces Kepler Data Release to Public Archive
08.12.11 - The Kepler science team announced Quarter 3 science data will be available for download on Sept. 23, 2011.
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A Cosmic Inkblot Test
08.10.11 - What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space?
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Herschel Telescope Detects Oxygen Molecules in Space
08.01.11 - The Herschel Space Observatory has provided the first confirmed finding of oxygen molecules in space.
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NASA's WISE Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid
07.27.11 - Astronomers studying observations taken by WISE discovered the first known Trojan asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth.
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Chandra Observes Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole
07.27.11 - The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time, using images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Water Source
07.22.11 - Astronomers, including a team led by Matt Bradford of JPL, found a feeding black hole soaking in water vapor.
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Spitzer Sees Spider Web of Stars
07.20.11 - Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring
07.19.11 - New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail
07.14.11 - Comet Hartley 2 is a little bit like Hansel and Gretel, leaving behind a trail of ice crumbs as it circles the sun.
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Herschel Helps Solve Mystery of Cosmic Dust Origins
07.07.11 - New observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160,000 and 230,000 Earth masses of fresh dust.