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  • Artist's concept of Euclid

    NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

    01.24.13 - NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

  • Red supergiant star Betelgeuse

    Betelgeuse Star Braces for Crash with Strange Bar

    01.22.13 - Orion, the famous hunter presiding over northern winter skies, may experience a stellar crash in its future.

  • a spiral galaxy streaks across the upper right, flanked by a bright star lower left

    Hubble Focuses on "the Great Attractor"

    01.18.13 - Hubble captured a busy patch of space, scattered with many nearby stars. The field also has numerous galaxies in the background.

  • A Ball Aerospace technician inspects the Webb Telescope Aft Optics Subsystem during mirror integration activities. The Aft Optics bench, made of lightweight beryllium like the mirrors, holds Webb's tertiary and fine steering mirrors.

    Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

    01.16.13 - The performance testing for the aft-optics subsystem (AOS) was recently completed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif.

  • A central scattering of fine stars with a breakouts of blue and background galaxies shining through

    Hubble Views a Dwarf Galaxy

    01.11.13 - NGC 5477, a dwarf galaxy in the Messier 101 group, lacks obvious structure but shows visible signs of ongoing star birth.

  • Computer simulations of the collision between NGC 6872 and IC 4970.

    NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

    01.10.13 - Measuring tip-to-tip across its two outsized spiral arms, NGC 6872 spans more than 522,000 light-years, making it more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy.

  • An illustration of a number of the different kinds of planets found by Kepler all lined up in a row.

    At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet

    01.10.2013 - A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.

  • Artist's conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026

    NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

    01.08.13 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed "weather map" yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs.

  • Artist's concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega

    NASA, ESA Find Evidence for Vega Asteroid Belt

    01.08.13 - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies.

  • The Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star collapsed.

    New Chandra Movie Features Neutron Star Action

    01.07.13 - Chandra's deep look at a rapidly rotating neutron star may provide new insight into the nature of some of the densest matter in the universe.

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