Mars Kicking Spirit When She’s Down
[/caption] The Spirit rover has been stuck in loose soil on Mars for several months now, and just as the…
Where In The Universe #68
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to…
New Images Reveal Details of the Trifid Nebula
[/caption] You'll have no trouble at all enjoying these stunning new images of the Trifid Nebula. This massive star factory…
Watermelons: The Newest Renewable Energy Source
This has nothing to do with space or astronomy, but is perhaps one of the juiciest pieces of new I…
Space Shuttle Launch Scrubbed for Wednesday Morning
[/caption] NASA officially scrubbed the second attempt for launching the STS-128 mission. "The last half an hour or so, a…
Help Solve the Mystery of Epsilon Aurigae with Citizen Sky
[/caption] We've written about Epsilon Aurigae before, but this mysterious star is just now beginning to dim, so we wanted…
LCROSS Anomaly Causes “Substantial” Fuel Loss
[/caption] The operations team for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission has discovered the spacecraft experienced an…
Astro Art of the Week: Music and the Heavens
[/caption] This week's featured Astro Art was created by Universe Today reader Bhavya Mittal. Bhavya calls it "Music combines the…
South Korea Launches Rocket; Satellite Fails to Reach Its Orbit
South Korea successfully launched its first rocket on Tuesday, but the satellite payload failed to reach its designated orbit, officials…
What is a Black Hole?
[/caption] Black holes are scary, and some of the most intriguing and mysterious objects in the Universe. This is probably…