When we look up at the starry sky, certain celestial formations have been familiar to us for millennia. The Pleiades, that ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

Learn how NASA’s TESS and ESA’s Gaia missions helped astronomers uncover thousands of hidden stars, revealing that the Pleiades are 20 times larger than previously believed.

The universe keeps scientists very occupied and when they think they've figured out the anomalies of the universe, the get ...

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of ...

Supercomputing 2008, Booth 1009 — With its sights set on colonizing the moon and eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA is calling on researchers to solve some of the most complex science and ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades constellation has thousands more “sibling” stars hidden across the sky, making it 20 times larger than currently estimated.

The meteor shower is caused by debris from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, creating a natural light show as small particles burn up ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If you're a materials scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center, or an engineer at the Johnson or Marshall Space Centers studying Space Shuttle flow-control valves, or any one ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that with over 60 miles of InfiniBand cabling in place at the NASA Advanced ...

NASA ARC: Pleiades, NASAs supercomputing powerhouse, located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., placed sixth on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful, high-performance computers.