NASA lab brews up alien atmospheres here on Earth

A NASA team has recreated the atmosphere of a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet, similar to this artist's rendition of WASP-18b

Earth's pleasant, life-giving atmosphere is turning out to be somewhat of an oddity. With almost 4,000 planets so far discovered orbiting stars beyond our solar system, scientists are finding that atmospheres come in a wide range of recipes. To get a better understanding of that cosmic chemistry, a team at

Decade long study sheds light on “killer” galactic mergers

Two merging galaxies known as Arp 302, also called VV 340

Images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are providing insight into the phenomenon of "killer" galaxies that, when they merge, shut down star formation within the new united galaxies. The collision and mixing of a pair of galaxies under the right (or wrong) conditions can disrupt the processes that allow

NASA to Make Announcement About Kepler Telescope

An illustration of the Kepler space telescope.

NASA is about to make an announcement about the Kepler, potentially to say the planet-hunting telescope has finally run out of fuel almost a decade after being launched into space.A tweet from the agency that in the teleconference, it will “provide an update on the status” of the telescope, and

NASA Voyager 2 could be nearing interstellar space



Last gasp? NASA fires up fading Kepler telescope for Campaign 19

Kepler's fuel stocks are dwindling, but there may be life left in it yet

Although the science mission of its successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now underway, NASA isn't done with the Kepler Space Telescope just yet. Its scientists have awoken the deep space probe to gather scientific data yet again, though with an unknown amount of fuel and a compromised