Solar System News Summary

NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.

From Endangered Fish to Saturn’s Rings: NASA Science Highlighted at American Geophysical Union Meeting

NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system.

Nature’s Most Precise Clocks May Make “Galactic GPS” Possible; Pulsing Pulsars Help in Search for Gravitational Waves

Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

NASA’s Wise Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky; Infrared All-Sky Surveying Telescope Sends Back First Images from Space

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.

NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun

NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior.

High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying with NASA

NASA is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 feet.

NASA Announces News Telecon To Discuss Hubble Images Of Pluto

NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.

NASA Extends Cassini’s Tour of Saturn, Continuing International Cooperation for World Class Science

NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.

NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.