Winds on Venus
[/caption] Seen from Earth, Venus is a featureless ball; even the most powerful Earth-based telescope shows only clouds and more…
Spitzer Changes Its Glasses, Sees Cotton Candy
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has run out of the liquid helium that kept its optics cool -- but the…
Where In The Universe #65
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. Take a look at…
Hubble, Gemini Spot ‘Hyperactive’ Stars in Small, Young Galaxies
We all know youngsters are a handful, but this really takes the cake: astronomers have clocked the speeds of stars in…
There Was a Reason Discovery’s Rollout Took Longer Than Usual…
[/caption] Yikes! No wonder the rollout of space shuttle Discovery took a little bit longer than usual. Lightning lit up…
New View Toward Carina Reveals Star Fest, Exploding “Engine”
A remarkable new view of the Milky Way toward the constellation Carina is alive with a flurry of stars --…
Ares I-X Comes Together (and it is BIG)
[/caption] The Ares I-X rocket is being stacked on the Mobile Launch Platform in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation…
LCROSS Sees Life on Earth
[/caption] The LCROSS spacecraft took a look back at Earth, and guess what it saw? Evidence of intelligence? Not so…
First Tweets from the ISS
[/caption] Listen my children and you shall hear Tweets coming from up above our Earthly sphere. The newest International Space…
Plains of Titan to be Named for “Dune” Novels
[/caption] Titan's mysterious dark plains will be named after planets in the series of "Dune" science fiction novels by author…