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 | The mission will seek to answer an age-old question - are there other Earths in space?
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 30, 2008 |
 | 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first
astronomical observation through a telescope. It will be a year of worldwide celebration, promoting astronomy and its contribution to
society and culture.
Provided by the International Astronomical Union, Garching, Germany
Published: December 29, 2008 |
 | The rovers have made important discoveries about wet and violent environments on ancient Mars. They also have returned a quarter-million images.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 29, 2008 |
 | There's more than Santa to see in the night sky during this holiday season. Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich's podcast helps you find three objects visible up above these next few evenings. By Michael E. Bakich
Published: December 23, 2008 |
 | The orbiter was subjected to the extreme temperature cycles of the lunar environment as engineers conducted simulated flight operations.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: December 22, 2008 |
 | Observatory team can begin equipping instrument for scientific observation.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 22, 2008 |
 | This discovery provides more detail about conditions during specific periods of Mars' history.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 22, 2008 |
 | The agreement provides for approximately $20 million in ALMA construction funding through Taiwan's National Science Council.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: December 22, 2008 |
 | Astronomers use these images to study Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: December 18, 2008 |
 | The solar wind strikes the upper atmosphere of Venus and carries off particles into space. Planetary scientists think the planet has lost part of its water in this way.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: December 18, 2008 |
 | A chance alignment of a foreground galaxy and a distant quasar made the discovery of water in the early universe possible.
Provided by the Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Published: December 17, 2008 |
 | The team's findings hold the key to understanding more about inflation.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: December 17, 2008 |
 | When combined with other clues — supernovae, the study of the cosmic microwave background, and the distribution of galaxies — this new X-ray result gives scientists the best insight to date on the properties of dark energy.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 16, 2008 |
 | Close views of the southern polar region yield new insight into what may be happening within the moons fractures.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 16, 2008 |
 | Some scientists think the Saturnian moon contains active cryovolcanoes, spewing a super-chilled liquid into its atmosphere.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 16, 2008 |
 | When researchers applied a computer code to satellite observations, some patterns became clear for the first time. One was the prediction of how ions could move upward from the ionosphere to form the warm plasma cloak.
Provided by Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Published: December 15, 2008 |
 | Macro and microlensing, coupled with the giant eye of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, enabled astronomers to probe regions on scales as small as a millionth of an arcsecond.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 15, 2008 |
 | This celebration requires 60 inches of mirror and 100 candles. By Daniel Pendick
Published: December 12, 2008 |
 | A major finding shows that the action of water on and near the surface of Mars occurred for hundreds of millions of years
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 12, 2008 |
 | Typically one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids battle a Full Moon this year. Still, observers with clear skies should keep a watch out the night of December 13/14. By Richard Talcott
Published: December 12, 2008 |
 | Scientists propose that groundwater may have sheltered life forms as the planet started drying up.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: December 12, 2008 |
 | University of Hawaii astronomer used an ultra-sensitive camera to precisely measure the size of a planet orbiting a distant star.
Provided by Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, Hawaii
Published: December 11, 2008 |
 | Engineers will measure mirrors' structural stability to ensure their performance in the extreme temperatures of space.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: December 11, 2008 |
 | The observations also allow astronomers to pinpoint our distance to the galactic center with great precision, which is now measured to be 27,000 light-years.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 10, 2008 |
 | These objects could help astronomers understand details of brown dwarf structure and evolution.
Provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Published: December 10, 2008 |
 | The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) team based at The University of Arizona recently released 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Provided by The University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: December 9, 2008 |
 | This Hubble Space Telescope discovery marks an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life as we know it.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: December 9, 2008 |
 | The U.S. Naval Observatory will add leap second to clocks.
Provided by the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 8, 2008 |
 | The new mission is set to launch May 12, 2009.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 5, 2008 |
 | Scientists found evidence of ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: December 5, 2008 |
 | Jovian substorms can teach us about our own planet's magnetic substorms.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: December 5, 2008 |
 | Previous launch date of October 2009 no longer is feasible because of testing and hardware challenges.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: December 4, 2008 |
 | This extraordinary find is about 5 times as massive as Jupiter.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: December 4, 2008 |
 | The discovery of a brown dwarf's bipolar molecular outflow offers first strong evidence that these objects form through gravitational collapse.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: December 4, 2008 |
 | This new contract continues transportation services through spring 2012.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: December 3, 2008 |
 | New images provide insight into Venus' atmosphere.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: December 3, 2008 |
 | The movements of planets and seasonal variations to the constellations have been relatively the same for thousands of years. What if the sky changed overnight and a new star brighter than anything else appeared? Would it be noticed if it happened in the 16th century?
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: December 3, 2008 |
 | A new compositional class of comets: from fire, ice, or beyond?
Provided by Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
Published: December 2, 2008 |
 | Saturn's moon Enceladus may hide an underground reservoir of water.
Provided by the University of Central Florida, Orlando
Published: December 1, 2008 |
 | A shower of space rocks over Canada has solar system researchers buzzing, and we have pictures from the scene. By Michael E. Bakich
Published: December 1, 2008 |
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