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ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, invites all to respond to the 7th "Announcement of Opportunity" by submitting proposals for observations to be performed with the International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite.
Read MoreNASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.
Read MoreLast month the full moon was extra big, not just in perspective — it was documented: the biggest full moon of 2008, a perigee moon, 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than before. Get ready for a repeat performance this Saturday night, January 10th, another perigee Moon is coming.
Read MoreNASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stellar cinders work.
Read MoreIn Saturn's shadow, the southern hemisphere of Enceladus is lit by sunlight reflected first off the rings and then onto the nightside of the planet.
Read MoreImages from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken by Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues reveal 14 ballistic stars that rase through interstellar space like bullets and tear through clouds of gas.
Read MoreNASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demo'd a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.
Read MoreSaturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
Read MorePhotos are always coming in to the editorial office, yet this just released from NASA is amazing. Contained within the most massive and active star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, star cluster NGC 346 delivers energetic radiation that excites nearby gas, causing it to glow. The result is one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed images of a nearby star-forming region that has ever been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Read MoreA serious matter — NASA has funded a study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington that determined extreme solar eruptions could potentially have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The resulting report provides some of the first clear economic data that effectively quantifies today's risk of extreme conditions in space driven by magnetic activity on the sun and disturbances in the near-Earth environment. Instances of extreme space weather are rare and are categorized with other natural hazards that have a low
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