Electrical Dust Storms Could Make Life on Mars Impossible
New research is suggesting that planet-wide dust storms on Mars could create a snow of corrosive chemicals toxic to life.…
No, Mars Won’t Look as Big as the Moon in August
Have you gotten a copy of the email yet? If you haven't, you probably will. Forwarded from a friend, forwarded…
Saturn’s Ring Spokes are Back
Nope, that's not an error in the photograph. The ghostly white stripe in Saturn's rings was captured by Cassini on…
The Largest Structure in the Universe
Astronomers have used the Subaru and Keck telescopes to discover gigantic filaments of galaxies stretching across 200 million light-years in…
Liquid Methane Drizzles Down on Titan
New research from NASA, published in the journal Nature suggests that it's always raining on Titan. Not thunderstorms, but a…
Starburst Galaxy NGC 908
This photograph of galaxy NGC 908 was taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This spiral galaxy was…
The Search for Hidden Black Holes
Look into the sky with X-ray instruments, and you'll see a background radiation in all directions. Astronomers think these X-rays…
New View on Pulsars
Pulsars are the rapidly spinning corpses of massive stars. And although they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, they still…
Astrophoto: Centaurus A by Johannes Schedler
Natural disasters are, unfortunately, something that we must contend with. For example, a flash flood can plunge towns into unexpected…
Huygens Data Used to Measure Titan’s Pebbles
When ESA's Huygens probe landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan last year, it continued to transmit data for…