Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Volcanic Activity On a Super-Earth Exoplanet

By Paul Scott Anderson, on May 6th, 2015

Artist’s conception of super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, before and after volcanic activity on its day side. The surface may be partially molten. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

Discovering new exoplanets has become rather routine in the last few years, but determining just what conditions exist on any of them is naturally more difficult, […]

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NASA's X-Ray Space Telescope Celebrates 15 Years

By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 24th, 2014

Composite Chandra image of four supernovae: the Crab Nebula, Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58. Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA’s space telescope which observes the universe using X-rays, has now completed its 15th year of operations, and astronomers are celebrating the anniversary with a series of special images from the orbiting observatory. […]

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NASA's Hubble Helps Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Galaxies

By Press Release, on February 5th, 2014

An odyssey of exploration began on 25 April 1990, when Steve Hawley gingerly pulled Discovery’s robot arm away from the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo Credit: NASA

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Europe’s Herschel Space Observatory have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies that erupted and burned out early […]

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Hubble Space Telescope Discovers New Moon Orbiting Neptune

By Emily Carney, on July 16th, 2013

This composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the location of Neptune’s newest known moon, S/2004 N 1, which was discovered by Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute. The black and white portion and the color inset were both taken in 2009. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute).

NASA’s […]

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