Even though it comprises over 99% of the mass of the Solar System (with Jupiter taking up most of the…
This is just pretty! NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared…
Artist's concept of brown dwarf 2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been…
The image on the left shows a portion of our sky, called the Boötes field, in infrared light, while the…
It was a slow week on Space news except for the massive announcement that an ancient riverbed was discovered on…
From a JPL press release: Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble…
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has looked back in time to see what scientists called the “faint, lumpy glow” given…
On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, Keck Observatory will be hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Tom…
[/caption] When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first…
[/caption] Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that…