Subaru Telescope Takes Montage of Hayabusa’s Return to Earth
[/caption] The world watched and waited for the Hayabusa spacecraft to make its return to Earth on June 13, 2010…
Vast Oceans Likely Covered One Third of Mars
[/caption] Like rising waters from a flood, the evidence for past water on Mars --- and large amounts of it…
Latest Satellite Views of Oil Leak, Plus Dramatic Video of Where the Oil May End Up
[/caption] 56 days into the the still-leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well spill in the Gulf of Mexico, satellite views are…
Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets
[/caption] The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers recently found six new…
Water Could Be Widespread in Moon’s Interior
[/caption] A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher…
Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule Retrieved
[/caption] Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is…
Hayabusa Returns!
Japan's little spacecraft that could returned to Earth, putting on quite a show over the Australian outback, making a fiery…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is Time Real?
Time is an illusion caused by the passage of history (Douglas Adams 1952-2001). The way that we deal with time…
Hayabusa on the Homestretch on Return to Earth
[/caption] After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey,…
Astronomers Zoom in on Solar Systems in the Making
[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in…