Anne Minard
First-Time Solar System Mosaic From the Inside Out
[/caption] Say cheese! The MESSENGER spacecraft has captured the first portrait of our Solar System from the inside looking out. The…
First-Time Views of Solar System Births
[/caption] Chalk up a sizzling success for the HiCIAO planet-hunter camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii: it's captured this unprecedented…
Galaxy Size Matters … And This is Not a Rorschach Test
[/caption] When it comes to forming stars, the size of a galaxy does matter, according to research out today in…
Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light
[/caption] Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light,…
Titan’s Desert Sports a Surprising, Powerful Storm
[/caption] Titan is just fun. Seems like every other week, another fascinating tidbit emerges about how interesting Saturn's famous moon…
Sun, Earth Are Unlikely Pair to Support Life
[/caption] We don't know how lucky we are -- really. We know the interaction between Earth and Sun is a…
Early Black Holes Are Starving, Not Feasting
[/caption] A new black hole may not voraciously devour nearby gas -- because it may kick out most of the…
Planet Precursors May be Sized Like Trucks, Not Towns
[/caption] A typical model has planets forming from collisions of material swirling around stars. But new laboratory experiments indicate the…
Kepler Scores its First Exoplanet Sighting
[/caption] NASA researchers have published confirmation this week that the Kepler mission will be able to reveal the presence of…