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Science@NASA
19 Mar 2010, 04:46 UTC
Researchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking the unthinkable: The Moon has so much water, there's actually a "lunar hydrosphere." International spacecraft have recently discovered no fewer than three "flavors" of moonwater and no one knows when the discoveries will end.
The Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater
19 Mar 2010, 04:46 UTC
Researchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking the unthinkable: The Moon has so much water, there's actually a "lunar hydrosphere." International spacecraft have recently discovered no fewer than three "flavors" of moonwater and no one knows when the discoveries will end.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
18 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
From Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a rough and tumble roller derby among the gas giant's rings.
Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather
18 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
From Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a rough and tumble roller derby among the gas giant's rings.
NASA Breaking News
18 Mar 2010, 04:00 UTC
Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
Soyuz Landing Caps Milestone Space Station Mission
18 Mar 2010, 04:00 UTC
Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
17 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe.
Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold Dust
17 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
17 Mar 2010, 18:00 UTC
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.
Press Release: NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes
17 Mar 2010, 18:00 UTC
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.
ESO Top News
17 Mar 2010, 18:00 UTC
Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first “normal” exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly passes in front of a star similar to the Sun located 1500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).
First Temperate Exoplanet Sized Up
17 Mar 2010, 18:00 UTC
Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first “normal” exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly passes in front of a star similar to the Sun located 1500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).
ESO Top News
16 Mar 2010, 21:00 UTC
New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its colour.
Jupiter’s Spot Seen Glowing
16 Mar 2010, 21:00 UTC
New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its colour.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
16 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars.
WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose
16 Mar 2010, 19:03 UTC
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars.
ESA Top News
15 Mar 2010, 09:00 UTC
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars’ rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission.
