In Their Own Words: Experts Talk Juno
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – Many experts took time out of their hectic schedules to talk with Universe Today in the…
The Perseids: Why is There a Meteor Shower?
[/caption] Every year from late July to mid-August, the Earth encounters a trail of debris left behind from the tail…
Meteor Shower Points Towards Undiscovered Earthbound Comet
[/caption] With the annual Perseid Meteor Shower already underway, we're looking to the skies and thinking about what causes these…
The Hidden Galaxy in the Zone of Avoidance
[/caption] There are some places astronomers dare not tread. One of the prime places is beyond the disk of our…
LRO to Move in For Closer Look at the Apollo Landing Sites
[/caption] NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is changing our view of the Moon by literally bringing it into sharper focus…
New Opportunity for Students to Reach for the Stars and Send an Experiment to the Space Station
[/caption] A new opportunity is available for students and teachers to be part of history and fly the very first…
Got Drought? Just Tow in an Iceberg
[/caption] As an April Fool’s joke in 1978, Australian businessman Dick Smith claimed he was towing an iceberg from Antarctica…
Cassini Surveys the Dunes of Xanadu on Titan
[/caption] The name "Xanadu" just sounds exotic and enticing, and given that this region on Titan is right next to…
Replication of Arsenic Life Experiment Not Successful So Far
[/caption] One of the most vocal and ardent critics of the so-called ‘arsenic life’ experiment which was published in December…
HARPS Tunes In On “Noisy” Planets
[/caption] Able to achieve an astounding precision of 0.97 m/s (3.5 km/h), with an effective precision of the order of…