New Horizons Halfway to Next Flyby Destination NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided scientists an amazing once in a lifetime look at the distant dwarf planet Pluto as it flew by it in July 2015. Along with spectacular images of Pluto the spacecraft also sent back those of Pluto’s five moons including high definition shots of […]
New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?
Posted April 4th, 2017 at 3:45 pm (UTC-4)
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March 2017 Science Images
Posted March 31st, 2017 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Insight Into Planetary Evolution – Dark Matter Rare in Old Galaxies
Posted March 17th, 2017 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Scientists Gain New Insight into Planetary Evolution Scientists recently gained new insight into the evolution of planet formation by creating and studying a model of a fairly young solar system 300 light years from Earth. The nearly 13 million year-old planetary system circles a star known as HD 106906. The system features a surrounding planet […]
January 2017 Science Images
Posted February 1st, 2017 at 9:12 am (UTC-4)
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Is Planet 9 Causing Our Solar System to Wobble?
Posted October 20th, 2016 at 4:19 pm (UTC-4)
A new study from researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggests that Planet 9, the huge and so far unseen planet said to be lurking in the far reaches of the solar system, might be causing our group of planets to wobble a little and giving an impression that the sun is slightly tilted. […]
Cosmic Cannon; Mars Dust Storm Forecast; Dione’s Subsurface Ocean
Posted October 7th, 2016 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Cannon Astronomers have spotted super-hot blobs of plasma blasting into space like cannonballs near a dying red giant star, some 1,200 light years away. Using the Hubble Space Telescope to make their discovery, the scientists found that the balls of hot gas are flying so fast a trip from the Earth […]
September 2016 Science Images
Posted September 30th, 2016 at 4:30 pm (UTC-4)
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NASA Will Have Cassini Working Hard Right Up to Fiery Finish
Posted September 16th, 2016 at 5:00 pm (UTC-4)
As the saying goes all good things must come to an end and the same will go for the Cassini mission to Saturn as it begins its final year of operation. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has big plans for the orbiter as it makes its year-long swan song. Dubbed the Grand Finale, the space agency […]
Oh! No Flowing H2O on The Red Planet?
Posted August 24th, 2016 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
Last September, with much hoopla, NASA confirmed evidence of liquid water flowing on present-day Mars. But a new study using data from the space agency’s Mars Odyssey mission throws some cold water on those findings. About a year ago, the space agency’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter identified […]