Quadruply Lensed Dwarf Galaxy 12.8 Billion Light Years Away
[/caption] Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for astronomers that allows them to explore distant galaxies in far more detail…
First Amateur Image of Another Solar System
Amateur astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand shared an image with Universe Today, and it is perhaps the first…
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Curiosity Rover ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Quantum Leap in Pursuit of Martian Microbial Life
[/caption] NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, the most technologically complex and scientifically capable robot built by humans to explore the surface…
Forget Exomoons. Let’s talk Exorings
[/caption] In an article earlier this month, I discussed the potential for discovering moons orbiting extrasolar planets. I'd used an…
Thankful Astronomer
[/caption] Typically, I've been known as the Angry Astronomer. But since it's Thanksgiving here in the US, I figured I…
How Will MSL Navigate to Mars? Very Precisely
Getting the Mars Science Laboratory to the Red Planet isn’t as easy as just strapping the rover on an Atlas…
Does Pluto Have a Hidden Ocean?
[/caption] In recent years, it has become surprisingly apparent that, contrary to previous belief, Earth is not the only place…
NGC 1846 – Hubble Reveals Peculiar Life And Death Of A Stellar Population
[/caption] About 160,000 light years away in the direction of southern constellation Doradus, sits a globular cluster. It's not a…
Contact Established with Phobos-Grunt Spacecraft — Can the Mission Go On?
[/caption] Editor’s note: Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the US team from the LIFE experiment on board the…