Artificial Intelligence, NASA data used to discover eighth planet circling distant star
Dec 15, 2017, at 01:49 pm
Washington, Dec 15 (IBNS): Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
Does new horizons’ next target have a moon?
Dec 14, 2017, at 12:36 am
Washington, Dec 13 (IBNS): Scientists were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons’ next flyby target – a Kuiper Belt object a billion miles past Pluto -- might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another. Now new data hints that 2014 MU69 might have orbital company: a small moon.
Bright areas on Ceres suggest Geologic activity
Dec 14, 2017, at 12:33 am
Washington, Dec 13 (IBNS): If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
NASA's Juno probes the depths of Jupiter's great red spot
Dec 12, 2017, at 09:56 pm
Washington, Dec 12 (IBNS): Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds.
NASA asks skywatchers to gear up to experience best meteor shower next week
Dec 09, 2017, at 10:01 pm
Washington, Dec 9 (IBNS): Maybe you've already seen a bright meteor streak across the December sky? The annual Geminid meteor shower has arrived. It's a good time to bundle up, go outside and let the universe blow your mind!
NASA explores Artificial Intelligence for space communications
Dec 09, 2017, at 09:50 pm
Washington, De 9 (IBNS): NASA spacecraft typically rely on human-controlled radio systems to communicate with Earth.
Most distant Black Hole discovered
Dec 08, 2017, at 10:49 pm
Washington, Dec 8 (IBNS): Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole.
NASA-funded simulations show how massive collisions delivered metal to early Earth
Dec 06, 2017, at 01:53 pm
Washington, Dec 6 (IBNS): Planetary collisions are at the core of our solar system’s formation. Scientists have long believed that after the Moon’s formation, the early Earth experienced a long period of bombardment that diminished about 3.8 billion years ago.
Take the driver’s seat on sea level science
Dec 02, 2017, at 11:46 pm
WashIngton, Dec 2 (IBNS): A new NASA sea level simulator lets you bury Alaska’s Columbia glacier in snow, and, year by year, watch how it responds. Or you can melt the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and trace rising seas as they inundate the Florida coast.
WASP-18b has smothering stratosphere without water
Nov 30, 2017, at 03:44 pm
Washington, Nov 30 (IBNS): A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water.
Four decades and counting: New NASA instrument continues measuring Solar energy input to Earth
Nov 30, 2017, at 01:39 am
Washington, Nov 29 (IBNS): We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket us with warmth and provide cues to start our day. At the same time, our Sun’s energy drives our planet’s ocean currents, seasons, weather and climate. Without the Sun, life on Earth would not exist.
NASA builds its next Mars Rover Mission
Nov 30, 2017, at 01:34 am
Washington, Nov 29 (IBNS): In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet.
All missions on board for NASA Heliophysics research
Nov 28, 2017, at 09:09 pm
Washington, Nov 28 (IBNS): Scientists have been studying the near-Earth environment for the better part of a century, but many mysteries — like where the energetic particles that pervade the area originate and become energized — still remain.
NASA to test advanced space wireless network and device for returning small spacecraft to Earth
Nov 25, 2017, at 11:20 pm
Washington,Nov 25 (IBNS): NASA launched the Technology Educational Satellite, or TechEdSat-6, to the International Space Station on Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Nov. 12.
NASA links port-city sea levels to regional ice melt
Nov 22, 2017, at 09:51 pm
Washington, Nov 22 (IBNS): A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula.
Solar system’s first Interstellar visitor dazzles scientists
Nov 22, 2017, at 09:48 pm
Washington, Nov 22 (IBNS): Now, new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue.
The changing colors of our living planet
Nov 19, 2017, at 12:33 am
Washington, Nov 18 (IBNS): NASA satellites can see our living Earth breathe.
NASA's Mars 2020 Mission performs first supersonic parachute test
Nov 16, 2017, at 07:40 pm
Washington, Nov 16 (IBNS): Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the spacecraft down as it enters the Martian atmosphere at over 12,000 mph (5.4 kilometers per second). Preparations for this mission have provided, for the first time, dramatic video of the parachute opening at supersonic speed.
NASA shares hot news from the Antarctic underground
Nov 11, 2017, at 04:16 am
Washington, Nov 10 (IBNS): A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.
NASA reveals hot news from the Antarctic underground
Nov 08, 2017, at 09:47 pm
Washington, Nov 8 (IBNS): A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.
Return of the Comet: 96P spotted by ESA, NASA Satellites
Nov 05, 2017, at 01:29 am
Washington, Nov 4 (IBNS): The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — got a visit from an old friend this week when comet 96P entered its field of view on Oct. 25, 2017.
Warm air helped make 2017 Ozone hole smallest since 1988
Nov 05, 2017, at 12:56 am
Washington, Nov 4 (IBNS): Measurements from satellites this year showed the hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988, scientists from NASA and NOAA announced today.
Hubble sees nearby asteroids photobombing distant galaxies
Nov 05, 2017, at 12:30 am
Washington, Nov 4 (IBNS): Like rude relatives who jump in front of your vacation snapshots of landscapes, some of our solar system's asteroids have photobombed deep images of the universe taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Next Mars Rover will have 23 'eyes': NASA
Nov 01, 2017, at 09:29 pm
Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner.
NASA estimates global reach of atmospheric rivers
Nov 01, 2017, at 09:26 pm
Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): A recent study by NASA and several partners has estimated, for the first time, the global impact of atmospheric rivers on floods and droughts, as well as the number of people affected by these atmospheric phenomena.
IceBridge launches two sets of Antarctic flights
Oct 31, 2017, at 09:54 pm
Washington, Oct 31 (IBNS): Scientists with NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to map polar ice, Operation IceBridge, completed a successful science flight on Oct. 29, inaugurating their 2017 survey of Antarctic sea and land ice.
NASA evaluates use of a coin-sized thermometer to characterize comets and Earthbound asteroids
Oct 31, 2017, at 02:40 am
Washington, Oct 30 (IBNS): Two NASA teams want to deploy a highly compact, sensitive thermometer that could characterize comets and even assist in the redirection or possible destruction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
NASA releases spooky space sounds on Halloween
Oct 30, 2017, at 12:37 am
Washington, Oct 29 (IBNS): Soaring to the depths of our universe, gallant spacecraft roam the cosmos, snapping images of celestial wonders. Some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. When scientists convert these to sound waves, the results are eerie to hear.
Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system
Oct 28, 2017, at 12:36 am
Washington, oct 27 (IBNS): A small, recently discovered asteroid -- or perhaps a comet -- appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy. If so, it would be the first "interstellar object" to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.
Hubble observes exoplanet that snows sunscreen
Oct 28, 2017, at 12:31 am
Washington, Oct 27 (IBNS): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it "snows" sunscreen.