Moffett Field, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. Data from these newly-discovered lunar melt inclusions indicate the water content of lunar magma[Read More…]

Blue straggler stars. (NASA) Washington-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy’s bulge. Blue stragglers are so named because they seemingly lag behind in the aging process, appearing younger[Read More…]

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope detected tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Toledo Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space[Read More…]

Technicians at Astrotech’s payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. stow solar array #2 against the body of NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light[Read More…]