HiRISE Clocks Hurricane Speed Winds In Martian Dust Devils

13 years ago

[/caption] "It's early morning and the Sun comes out..." And from no where a huge Martian dust devil shakes its…

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Flat Universe

13 years ago

[/caption] A remarkable finding of the early 21st century, that kind of sits alongside the Nobel prize winning discovery of…

Special Relativity May Answer Faster-than-Light Neutrino Mystery

13 years ago

[/caption] Oh, yeah. Moving faster than the speed of light has been the hot topic in the news and OPERA…

ESA Issues Invitation To Russia To Partner ExoMars Mission

13 years ago

[/caption] What's new in the avenue of space exploration? Right now the European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a formal…

Phobos-Grunt: The Mission Poster

13 years ago

[/caption] Russia is marking the upcoming blastoff of their dauntingly complex Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos…

Was the “First Photographed UFO” a Comet?

13 years ago

[/caption] On August 12th, 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla was preparing to study the Sun at the recently opened Zacatecas…

Pluto or Eris: Which is Bigger?

13 years ago

[/caption] The controversy between Pluto and Eris regarding their status as "largest dwarf planet" continues. During a joint meeting of…

Amateur Captures Coronal Mass Ejection

13 years ago

While you can't exactly call Joe Brimacombe an amateur astrophotographer, he's managed to capture an elusive solar event on film...…