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NASA Sees Wind Shear Affecting Tropical Cyclone 02A

... Cyclone 02A made its way west across the Arabian Sea and NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm when it was just off the coast of ... to elongate from wind shear. Infrared data taken from NASA's Aqua satellite on June 27, 2016 at 2159 UTC (5:59 p.m. EDT) showed cold ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2016 - 7:24am - 0 attachments

Hubble Nets A Cosmic Tadpole

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic tadpole, with its bright head ... other, odder types -- as shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope , taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 ... In this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a firestorm of star birth is lighting up one ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2016 - 7:23am - 0 attachments

What Happens When You Steam A Planet?

... changing the bulk composition of the planet. Credit: NASA Steaming a rocky planet wouldn't just press out the wrinkles. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2016 - 7:34pm - 0 attachments

Tidal Disruption Event: Black Hole Eats Star, Beams Signal To Earth

... effects around a normally quiescent black hole. Credit: NASA/Swift/Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State U. "Most tidal disruption ... Space-Science Institute and lead author on the study. "NASA's Swift satellite saw it first and triggered the European Space Agency's ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2016 - 12:53pm - 0 attachments

Trouble With Terraforming Mars

... once we understand it better. Early NASA artwork showing lunar greenhouses. Some NASA scientists are getting together a project to send an automated small ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:34pm - 0 attachments

Creating Venus: 'Electric Wind' Can Strip Planets Of Oceans And Atmospheres

... to new results from ESA's Venus Express mission by NASA-funded researchers. Venus is in many ways the most like Earth in terms ... its lack of the molecules needed to make water. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Conceptual Image Lab, Brian Monroe "It's amazing, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2016 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

Chirality In Space: Prebiotic Molecule Detected In Interstellar Cloud

... rendition of a young protoplanetary system from the NASA Hubble and FUSE/L. Cook archives. "Homochirality is one of the most ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2016 - 10:54am - 0 attachments

Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects May Lead The Way To Planet Nine - Or 10

... caused by the presence of the hypothetical planet, but NASA has denied it, suggesting that it could simply be statistical noise in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2016 - 11:47am - 0 attachments

Light Pollution Means Milky Way Hidden From One-third Of Humanity

... advantage of low-light imaging now available from the NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, calibrated by ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2016 - 1:46pm - 0 attachments

Greenland's 2015 Melt Records Consistent With 'Arctic Amplification'

... Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "If loss of sea ice is driving ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2016 - 8:37am - 0 attachments