Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Since its launch five years ago, there have been three forces tugging at NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it speeds through the solar system. The sun, Earth and Jupiter have all been influential — a gravitational trifecta of sorts. At times, Earth was close enough to be the frontrunner. More[Read More…]

  This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2016.  Since its launch five years ago, there have been three forces tugging at NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it speeds through the solar system. The sun, Earth and Jupiter have[Read More…]

Greenbelt, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2016.  Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it. Some 4 billion years ago, the sun shone with only about three-quarters the brightness we see today, but its surface roiled with[Read More…]

Mars mystery plume  EU–(ENEWSPF)–23 May 2016.  Mysterious high-rise clouds seen appearing suddenly in the martian atmosphere on a handful of occasions may be linked to space weather, say Mars Express scientists. The extreme altitude poses something of a problem in explaining the features: it is far higher than where typical[Read More…]

Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Carnegie’s Allan Sandage, who died in 2012, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on unraveling a surprising historical mystery related to one of his own seminal discoveries. While preparing a centennial history of the Carnegie Observatories in the early[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today. But a new study using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggests a possible commonality in the distant past. The Kepler-223 planets orbit their star[Read More…]