![]() ssc2020-20 01.22.21 The 7 Rocky TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Made of Similar StuffPrecise measurements reveal that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their c... read more |
![]() ssc2020-19 01.13.21 Citizen Scientists Help Create 3D Map of Cosmic NeighborhoodIs our solar system located in a typical Milky Way neighborhood? Scientists have gotten closer to answering this ques... read more |
![]() ssc2020-17 11.18.20 16-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Solved, Revealing Stellar Missing LinkThe Blue Ring Nebula, which perplexed scientists for over a decade, appears to be the youngest known example of two s... read more |
![]() ssc2020-16 09.24.20 Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky WayA new project using sonification turns astronomical images from Chandra and other telescopes into sound. This allows ... read more |
![]() ssc2020-15 09.16.20 NASA Missions Spy First Possible Planet Hugging a Stellar CinderThe violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupite... read more |
![]() ssc2020-14 08.25.20 Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot SpotThe nebula known as W51 is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. First identified in 1... read more |
![]() ssc2020-13 06.24.20 NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young StarThe newly discovered planet is orbiting a star still encircled by the disk of material from which both objects formed... read more |
![]() ssc2020-12 06.22.20 Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic WorldsJupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young mem... read more |
![]() ssc2020-11 04.28.20 Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole DanceBlack holes aren't stationary in space; in fact, they can be quite active in their movements. But because they are co... read more |
![]() ssc2020-09 04.09.20 In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown DwarfFor the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the... read more |
![]() ssc2020-08 01.30.20 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical DiscoveryAfter more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our gala... read more |
![]() ssc2020-06 01.27.20 Tarantula Nebula Spins Web of Mystery in Spitzer ImageThe Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space Telescope, was one of the first targets studied by the ... read more |
![]() ssc2020-05 01.24.20 Operate a NASA Great Observatory With New VR ExperienceA new virtual reality experience lets users get a taste of what it's like to explore the cosmos with the Spitzer Spac... read more |
![]() ssc2020-04 01.24.20 For Hottest Planet, a Major Meltdown, Study ShowsIn the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. read more |
![]() ssc2020-03 01.22.20 NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space TelescopeNASA is celebrating the legacy of one of its Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has studied the ... read more |
![]() ssc2020-01 01.07.20 NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone WorldNASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone,... read more |
![]() ssc2019-18 12.19.19 Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long HistoryThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dus... read more |
![]() ssc2019-17 10.30.19 Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish GourdLook closer to see why scientists studying this distant cloud of dust and gas think it resembles a cosmic jack-o'-lan... read more |
![]() ssc2019-16 09.30.19 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With BubblesThis infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are infl... read more |
![]() ssc2019-15 08.27.19 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has... read more |
![]() ssc2019-14 08.19.19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's SurfaceA new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a ... read more |
![]() ssc2019-13 08.07.19 NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways GalaxyIt might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy ... read more |
![]() ssc2019-12 07.02.19 Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, SpitzerTwo NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed chemical "fingerprint" of a pl... read more |
![]() ssc2019-11 06.26.19 A Whirlpool 'Warhol' from NASA's Spitzer TelescopeUnlike Andy Warhol's famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of th... read more |
![]() ssc2019-10 06.13.19 How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So LongAfter nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off ... read more |
![]() ssc2019-08 05.31.19 NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family PortraitThe evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in ... read more |
![]() ssc2019-06 05.08.19 New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the UniverseNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected... read more |
![]() ssc2019-05 04.25.19 The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black HoleOn April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, t... read more |
![]() ssc2019-04 03.27.19 'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby StarsWhat looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrare... read more |
![]() ssc2019-03 02.27.19 Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom?Three images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show pairs of galaxies on the cusp of cosmic consolidations. Though ... read more |
![]() ssc2019-01 01.07.19 Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA TelescopeUsing data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of ... read more |
![]() ssc2018-16 11.16.18 Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, GlassWe are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were for... read more |
![]() ssc2018-15 11.14.18 NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'OumuamuaIn November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first ... read more |
![]() ssc2018-14 10.23.18 Newborn Stars Blow Bubbles in the Cat's Paw NebulaThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Cat's Paw Nebula, so named for the large, round features tha... read more |
![]() ssc2018-13 08.22.18 15 Years in Space for NASA's Spitzer Space TelescopeInitially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its ex... read more |
![]() ssc2018-12 08.10.18 Spitzer Beyond: The Incredible Continuing Adventures of the Spitzer Space TelescopeThe Spitzer Space Telescope is one of NASA's Great Observatories, designed to observe the universe in infrared light.... read more |
![]() ssc2018-10 08.09.18 Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot JupitersImagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with a... read more |
![]() ssc2018-09 08.02.18 The Fading Ghost of a Long-Dead StarThin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in... read more |
![]() ssc2018-07 03.01.18 NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's AtmosphereMuch like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space ... read more |
![]() ssc2018-04 02.05.18 New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, AtmospheresIn the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working... read more |
![]() ssc2018-02 01.11.18 NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyAn intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial n... read more |
![]() ssc2018-01 01.11.18 NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3-D Journey Through the Orion NebulaAstronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared... read more |
![]() ssc2017-18 11.29.17 Exoplanet Has Smothering Stratosphere Without WaterA NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized exoplanet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere load... read more |
![]() ssc2017-17 11.16.17 Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have AtmosphereA super-Earth exoplanet thought to sport lava lakes on its hot side, 55 Cancri e, likely also wears an atmosphere wit... read more |
![]() ssc2017-16 11.01.17 Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of ExoplanetsBeneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storer... read more |
![]() ssc2017-15 10.30.17 Spitzer Reveals Ancient Galaxies' Frenzied StarmakingA deep look back to the early universe by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly rowdy bunch of g... read more |
![]() ssc2017-14 10.16.17 NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave EventFor the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neu... read more |
![]() ssc2017-13 10.13.17 NASA Seeks Information from Potential Funders for SpitzerNASA is seeking information from U.S. parties interested in operating the Spitzer Space Telescope with non-NASA fundi... read more |
![]() ssc2017-12 10.11.17 Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris DisksA study finds that giant exoplanets that orbit far from their stars are more likely to be found around young stars th... read more |
![]() ssc2017-11 10.04.17 Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by DustOne of the most mysterious stellar objects may be revealing some of its secrets at last. Called KIC 8462852, also kno... read more |
![]() ssc2017-10 08.17.17 Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather ForecastsDim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clo... read more |
![]() ssc2017-09 08.11.17 TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar SystemResearchers say in a new study that the TRAPPIST-1 star is quite old: between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. This is up t... read more |
![]() ssc2017-08 06.08.17 The Art of ExoplanetsHow do you visualize distant worlds that you can't see? IPAC's Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are featured in a new video p... read more |
![]() ssc2017-07 05.25.17 Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black HoleAstronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. read more |
![]() ssc2017-06 05.11.17 'Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive AtmosphereA study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-... read more |
![]() ssc2017-05 05.10.17 Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab NebulaAstronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning near... read more |
![]() ssc2017-03 04.26.17 'Iceball' Planet Discovered Through MicrolensingScientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit ... read more |
![]() ssc2017-02 03.10.17 Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First StarsAstronomers have detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was only 4 percent of it... read more |
![]() ssc2017-01 02.22.17 NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. ... read more |
![]() ssc2017-00 02.14.17 Spitzer Hears Stellar 'Heartbeat' from Planetary CompanionA planet and a star are having a tumultuous romance that can be detected from 370 light-years away. NASA's Spitzer Sp... read more |
![]() feature16-16 09.21.16 'Milky Way Project' Relaunches Citizen Science WebsiteTo most of us, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seems like mind-boggling, never-ending space. But what does the Milky ... read more |
![]() ssc2016-01 03.30.16 NASA’s Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-EarthObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a r... read more |
![]() ssc2015-04 12.03.15 NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of Faintest Galaxy from Early UniverseAstronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest objec... read more |
![]() ssc2015-03 09.10.15 NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant HeartAstronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with new stars. The unexpected f... read more |
![]() ssc2015-02 07.30.15 NASA's Spitzer Confirms Closest Rocky ExoplanetUsing NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside ou... read more |
![]() ssc2015-01 05.05.15 Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance RecordAn international team of astronomers, led by Yale University and the University of California scientists, pushed back... read more |
![]() ssc2014-07 09.24.14 NASA Telescopes Find Clear Skies and Water Vapor on ExoplanetAstronomers using data from three of NASA's space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler -- have discovered clear s... read more |
![]() ssc2014-06 08.28.14 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid SmashupNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup ... read more |
![]() ssc2014-05 08.27.14 NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant GalaxyAstronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The build... read more |
![]() ssc2014-04 05.07.14 NASA Delivers New Insight into Star Cluster FormationUsing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance ... read more |
![]() ssc2014-03 04.25.14 NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbor of SunNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the ... read more |
![]() ssc2014-02 03.20.14 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our FingertipsTouring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thurs... read more |
![]() ssc2014-01 01.29.14 NASA and ESA Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out GalaxiesAstronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, and many ground-ba... read more |
![]() ssc2013-09 10.24.13 NASA's Great Observatories Begin Deepest-Ever Probe of the UniverseNASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before.... read more |
![]() ssc2013-08 09.30.13 NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic WorldAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet b... read more |
![]() ssc2013-07 08.23.13 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in SpaceTen years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canave... read more |
![]() ssc2013-06 07.23.13 NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISONAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions f... read more |
![]() ssc2013-05 06.05.13 NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming CountrysideNew views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, ... read more |
![]() ssc2013-04 02.07.13 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like FlashesTwo of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious in... read more |
![]() ssc2013-02 01.08.13 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around VegaAstronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star ... read more |
![]() ssc2013-01 01.08.13 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown DwarfAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, crea... read more |
![]() ssc2013-03 01.07.13 Have You Practiced Your Piano and Done Your NASA Research?Did you know that students as young as 7th graders who are juggling soccer, dances, and homework can also conduct NAS... read more |
![]() ssc2012-16 11.15.12 NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy CandidateBy combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in... read more |
![]() ssc2012-15 11.01.12 Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to LifeSolar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just t... read more |
![]() ssc2012-14 10.24.12 NASA'S Spitzer Sees Light Of Lonesome StarsA new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light... read more |
![]() ssc2012-13 10.03.12 NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion Of UniverseAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced one of the most precise measurements yet of the Hubbl... read more |
![]() ssc2012-12 09.19.12 NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant GalaxyWith the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astr... read more |
![]() ssc2012-11 07.18.12 Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller than EarthAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of E... read more |
![]() ssc2012-10 06.26.12 Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy ClusterSeeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have... read more |
![]() ssc2012-09 06.19.12 Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large MealsBlack holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them ... read more |
![]() ssc2012-08 06.07.12 NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned FuriouslyThe faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precis... read more |
![]() ssc2012-07 05.08.12 NASA's Spitzer Sees The Light of Alien 'Super Earth'NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for t... read more |
![]() ssc2012-06 04.24.12 NASA'S Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split PersonalityWhile some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's S... read more |
![]() ssc2012-05 04.05.12 NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler MissionsNASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spi... read more |
![]() ssc2012-04 02.29.12 Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and DustAstronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Spa... read more |
![]() ssc2012-03 02.22.12 NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in SpaceAstronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid... read more |
![]() ssc2012-02 01.10.12 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space NurseryThe stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, like... read more |
![]() ssc2012-01 01.10.12 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' StardustThe cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space O... read more |
![]() ssc2011-10 12.21.11 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of TimeA remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. read more |
![]() ssc2011-09 10.24.11 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova MysteryA mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an explodin... read more |