Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Classify Possible Planetary Habitats

Citizen scientists are busy sifting through images from the WISE mission, logging 1 million potential planetary habitats.

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NASA's Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has, to date, offered scientists more than 4,000 candidate planets -- the 1,000th of which was recently verified.

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NASA’s Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones

How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than 4,000 candidate planets for further study -- the 1,000th of which was recently verified.



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NASA Administrator, Media Tour Bally, Pa. Advanced Materials Manufacturer Jan. 9

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will get a firsthand look at work being done on advanced woven thermal protection systems used on the agency's Orion spacecraft during a visit to Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) in Bally, Pennsylvania at noon EST Friday, Jan. 9.



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Happy New Year!

We’re back! After a pause over the festive period to recharge our batteries (hoping that Philae will soon do the same), the Rosetta blog has now reopened for business. Welcome back to all of you! Before we preview the exciting year ahead for Rosetta, we’d like to kindly remind you of some blog house rules: Please keep all comments relevant to the blog post that you’re commenting on (repeated posting of similarly themed and irrelevant comments on multiple posts will be considered as spamming or trolling and will be trashed). Please use respectful language when responding to other comments. If you disagree with something, that’s fine, but any comments that are considered aggressive or unnecessarily rude will not be published. Constructive criticism is welcome! While speculation of what you see in the images is welcome (we, too, often speculate), please remember that confirmation of features, processes, etc., will only be provided in peer-reviewed papers, a process that often takes several weeks or months. As usual, we will report on any results presented in a peer-reviewed paper once they are published. Comments including links to sites irrelevant to the post or to unpublished theories or non peer-reviewed papers will likely be trashed. Many thanks for helping to make this blog an enthusiastic forum for interesting and relevant discussion and debate! And with that, let’s take a look at the year ahead (see next post!). Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2015, The Rosetta blog team



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New Project Scientist for Mars Rover

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has a new science-team chief who has already helped lead the mission for a decade.

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NASA Announces Briefing on New Mission to Track Water in Earth's Soil

NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) Thursday, Jan. 8, about the upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.

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NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole

Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, raises questions about the behavior of this giant black hole and its surrounding environment.



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NASA Statement on GAO Decision to Deny Commercial Crew Contract Protest

NASA issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision to deny a protest Sierra Nevada Corp., of Louisville, Colorado, filed Sept. 26, 2014, challenging the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) Contract awards made Sept. 16, 2014, to The Boeing Company, Space Exploration, Houston, and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), of Hawthorne, California.



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Student Scientists Persevere, Ready to Launch Experiments to Space Station

Students will look to the skies this week when SpaceX's fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station lifts off at 6:18 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will carry scientific research conceived and designed by students who are learning first-hand what it takes to conduct research in space.



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NASA Announces Briefing on New Mission to Track Water in Earth’s Soil

NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 8, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington to discuss the upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.



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