Topic: Spitzer Space Telescope

Alien planet's mysterious blue color leaves scientists wondering

The Hubble Space Telescope helped scientists to identify the blue color of an exoplanet, giving researchers another piece in their understanding of the distant world. The alien planet has fierce winds and high temperatures, which turn rain into glass. 

Primordial galaxy spotted, sheds light on early universe

Scientists were able to see the ancient galaxy because gravity from a massive galaxy cluster situated between it and Hubble acted as a lens, bending the light from the 'incredibly faint' galaxy.

Distant galaxy helped tidy up early universe, scientists say

Using data from space telescopes, scientists say they have located a galaxy formed more than 13 billion years ago when the universe was young and still permeated with a fog of hydrogen gas.

Cosmic lens reveals galaxy from the dawn of time

This distant, ancient galaxy may have once helped clear out the murky fog that once filled the early universe, scientists added.

Scientists find new alien planet, smaller and hotter than Earth

The NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals astronomers a new alien planet possibly covered with molten lava.

First-ever deep-space telescope to hunt dangerous asteroids (+video)

The private space telescope forms the heart of Project Sentinel, a deep-space mission being unveiled today in Mountain View, Calif., by a nonprofit group of scientists and explorers that advocates better space rock monitoring.

Astronomers use an old trick to open new window on extrasolar planets

Two teams of astronomers used a technique for finding extrasolar planets to directly measure one such planet. The approach could allow the study of more exoplanets' atmospheres than ever before.

Light from alien 'super-earth' seen for first time

NASA's Spitzer space telescope has detected a light source coming from a large earth-like planet.

Strange red galaxies a 'missing link' in history of the universe?

The discovery of four ruby-red, dim galaxies at the farthest fringes of the universe could help scientists understand how the earliest galaxies evolved to become what we see today.
12/02/2011 03:37 pm

How are planets born? LkCa 15 could give scientists first-ever peek.

A newly discovered planet-candidate circling star LkCa 15 could provide astronomers with a first-ever look at a gas-giant planet as it grows. It could help prove or debunk current theories.
10/19/2011 06:28 pm

Surprise find in Kepler planet hunt: lots of multi-planet systems

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which is searching for Earth-mass planets orbiting sun-like stars, is finding hundreds of candidate planets, and many more multi-planet systems than expected.
05/23/2011 05:36 pm

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Looking deeper

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Dwarfs

In Pictures Space Photos of the Day: Remarkable Hubble photos

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Celestial nurseries

Brown dwarf star likely the coldest star yet discovered

Brown dwarf: Located some 75 light years from Earth, the failed star dubbed CFBDSIR 1458+10B is likely the coldest star yet discovered, with a temperature about that of boiling water.
03/23/2011 04:54 pm

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Spitzer Space Telescope

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Exoplanets

Photos of the Day Photos of the day 02/10

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Infrared

In Pictures Space photos of the day: In Technicolor

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Cosmic pairs

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Whirlpools

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Blowing in the Wind

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Gas giants