New Crew Exploration Vehicle Named Orion
NASA officially announced today that the crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion. This is the new capsule that will…
Book Review: Simple Stargazing
Learning the night sky is pretty intimidating. With enough desire and perseverance it's achievable, even though thousands of individual stars…
What’s Up this Week: August 21 – August 27, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The night is alive this week with everything from bright planets to the first sliver of the…
NASA Invests in SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler
NASA has announced a $500 million investment in two aerospace companies: SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler to help develop vehicles capable of…
Galaxy Collision Separates Out the Dark Matter
There's more dark matter than regular matter in the Universe, and they're normally all mixed up together in galaxies. But…
Linking the Formation of the Earth and Moon
Did the Earth capture the Moon with its gravity, did they form together in the early Solar System, or did…
Hidden Stores of Deuterium Discovered in the Milky Way
A six year study by NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, or FUSE, satellite has turned up previously hidden quantities of…
Universe Has Used Up a Fifth of Its Gas Tank
Since the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe has converted 20% of its original matter into stars. This…
Book Review: Uncentering the Earth
Fighting the good fight. David meeting Goliath. Persevering against the odds. These phrases give images associated with a valiant struggle…
Swirling Pinwheels Near the Heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have gathered new data on a formation of stars called the Quintuplet cluster. These are a group of stars…