Finding Buried Treasure on Mars: Radar Map Confirms Climate Cycles
[/caption] A radar instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has essentially looked below the surface of the Red Planet's north-polar…
High School Student Discovers Strange Pulsar-Like Object
[/caption] A high-school student from West Virginia has discovered a new astronomical object, a strange type of neutron star called…
Battlestar Photoshopica: Otto Travels to Pluto
[/caption] Our "Astro Art" feature needs a catchier name, and frankly we need more people to read this feature or…
Earth’s Circumference
The Earth's circumference - the distance around the equator - is 40,075 kilometers around. That's sounded nice and simple, but…
New Chandra Deep X-ray Image of the Galactic Center
[/caption] Chandra has done it again in creating some of the most visually stunning images of our Universe. This time,…
Carnival of Space #121
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang over at Next Big Future. Click here to read the…
New Equinox Stunners From Cassini
[/caption] Every 14.8 Earth years, equinox occurs at Saturn. But this is the first time there has been a spacecraft…
Spectacular Videos of Shuttle Piggyback Flight
With the shuttle retirement looming, you never know if or how often you're going to see this sight again. So…
Reaching Near Space For Less Than $150
A group of MIT students have launched a low-budget satellite to near space, taking images of the curvature of Earth…
Hawking Radiation
[/caption] When humans starve, they grow thin and eventually die; when a black hole starves, it too grows thin and…