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NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'Planet X'

7 Mar 2014, 19:37 UTC NASA's WISE has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed "Planet X."

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

New NASA Van Allen Probes Observations Helping To Improve Space Weather Models

7 Mar 2014, 16:12 UTC Using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes, researchers have tested and improved a model to help forecast what's happening in the radiation environment of near-Earth space.

Science@NASA

A Telescope Bigger than a Galaxy

7 Mar 2014, 14:33 UTC Astronomers have figured out how to use the gravity of distant galaxies to bend light and magnify images, forming gigantic telescopes that see deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

Universe Awareness - Space Scoop

Health Warning for a Nearby Star

7 Mar 2014, 12:00 UTC From the comfort of our day-to-day lives, it often feels like space is very far away. But when you think about it, Earth is part of space. 0ur planet is spinning through space with all the other planets, stars and even galaxies. It is even made from the same basic materials or “matter” as everything else, which is why we find the same materials in space as at home. Astronomers have just spotted large amounts of one of these materials, called carbon monoxide, around a nearby star called Beta Pictoris. Carbon monoxide is a chemical we see on Earth and is created when certain things burn, like forest fires and volcanoes. Beta Pictoris is surrounded by a large disc of cosmic gas and dust which has a planet inside it. It's from this dusty disc that the star's planet formed. New observations show that the disc contains lots of carbon monoxide gas. Why is this interesting? Well, this gas is easily and quickly destroyed by starlight. So where did it come from and hasn’t it been burned away? Astronomers believe that the carbon monoxide is being constantly delivered by comets, asteroids and small planets within the dusty disc. All of ...

ESA Top News

Catching signals from a speeding satellite

7 Mar 2014, 08:14 UTC Soaring high above Earth as they speed through space, satellites are difficult targets to track. Now a new approach developed in Europe is helping ground stations to acquire signals faster and more accurately than ever before.

NASA: Kepler News and Features

Kepler Marks Five Years in Space

7 Mar 2014, 01:07 UTC On March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler space telescope rocketed off into the darkness in search of potentially habitable worlds. Five years later we know now most stars have planets, Earth-size planets are common, and planets quite unlike those in our solar system exist.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

That Sinking Feeling

6 Mar 2014, 20:17 UTC New analyses of NASA radar data from 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La. that year.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's THEMIS Discovers New Process that Protects Earth from Space Weather

6 Mar 2014, 19:55 UTC For the first time, a study shows that a pool of dense particles normally circling Earth, deep inside the magnetosphere, can extend a long arm out to meet – and help block – incoming solar material.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's TRMM Satellite Images Show California Soaker Moved Eastward

6 Mar 2014, 19:50 UTC This animation from Feb. 28 to Mar. 3 shows the movement of the rain associated with the storm system that soaked California.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features

SOFIA's Target of Opportunity: Observing Supernova 2014J

6 Mar 2014, 19:03 UTC NASA's flying observatory focused four February flights on a supernova explosion that obliterated the remains of a star in the Messier 82 galaxy.

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