Read the story of these planet-hunting pioneers, who went on to find 70 of the first 100 exoplanets ever discovered. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — confirmed by ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Astronomers using Hubble imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. The disk is nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito.” ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly imaged similar catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system around another star, Fomalhaut.

NASA’s Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, publicly released the cutting-edge MAGE (Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment) model, a supercomputing ...

This image of super star cluster Westerlund 1 was captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, ...

Full details on the Science Activation opportunity can be found here.

Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) Science Objective Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) seeks to validate a model for flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF) and develop an ...

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

The Blue Marble: Next Generation is a series of images that show the color of the Earth’s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution (500 meters/pixel) at a global scale. This image shows ...

The average global temperature has increased by a little more than 1 degree Celsius since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975.

The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Data from a worldwide array of telescopes, including ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS ...