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Illustration of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite -- TESS -- observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

NASA Launches TESS the Exoplanet Hunter

April 23, 2018

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will soon join NASA’s fleet of exoplanet-hunters that, so far, includes the Kepler, Hubble, and the Spitzer Space Telescopes. TESS was launched at 2251 UTC on April 18, 2018, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The space observatory is expected to survey about 85% of […]

Artist conception of James Webb Space Telescope (Image: NASA)

More Testing Needed: NASA Delays Launch of Webb Space Telescope

March 29, 2018

Have you been anxiously waiting to see some of the new and more dazzling views of space that NASA promises will be provided by the new James Webb Space Telescope? Well, sorry to disappoint you, but you’re going to have to wait a little longer. The US space agency says they must delay sending the more powerful […]

Our Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways

June 9, 2016

How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The universe is a big place. And it’s getting even bigger, and at a faster rate than scientists had predicted.  That’s according to a new study at Johns Hopkins University, led by Professor Adam Reiss. The study is based on an analysis of data gathered by the Hubble Space […]

Artist concept of dwarf planet Makemake and its moon MK2 (NASA/ESA)

Dwarf Planet Moon Discovered; Supplements Boost Antidepressants; Kepler Back in Business

April 27, 2016

Hubble Spots Moon Circling Distant Dwarf Planet Out in the far reaches of our solar system lies the Kuiper Belt.  This region of space is occupied by icy objects left over from the creation of the solar system. Several dwarf planets, such as Pluto, also occupy the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers studying images gathered by the […]

The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released 8/24/15, shows off the remarkable complexity of the PN M2-9 Twin Jet Nebula which is also known as Minkowski's Butterfly, the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula or simply Butterfly Nebula. The luminous nebula is about 2,100 light-years away from Earth. Unlike ordinary planetary nebulae which has one star at their center, this is a bipolar nebula which has two stars from a binary star system. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

Science Images of the Month – August 2015

August 31, 2015

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