SMART-1’s Final Days
After 16 months of successful observations, ESA's SMART-1 is about to make its final contribution to lunar science. On September…
Dark Energy Mission Chosen
A new space telescope concept has been chosen by NASA to help uncover the source of dark energy; the mysterious…
Twin Planemos Discovered
Astronomers have turned up plenty of extrasolar planets, but a newly discovered binary pair of planets is quite the find.…
Brown Dwarf Lived Inside Another Star
ESO's Very Large Telescope has uncovered an interesting stellar pair: a hot white dwarf and a brown dwarf orbiting each…
Podcast: A Puzzling Difference
Imagine looking at red houses, and sometimes you see a crow fly past. But every time you look at a…
Astrophoto: NGC 6755 and 6756 by Bernhard Hubl
Stars arise at the heart of great interstellar clouds that have collapsed under their own weight. These free-floating clouds are…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spots
Astronomers from UC Berkeley used the massive W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to capture this infrared image of Jupiter and…
Hubble View of a Supernova Remnant
This Hubble Space Telescope photograph contains a supernova remnant located in the Small Magellanic Cloud - it's bluish haze at…
Help Look for Space Dust
If you've got keen eyes, a computer connection, and a little spare time, you could help discover particles of interstellar…
Book Review: Astronomy: Eyewitness Companions
There's nothing like spending a warm summer's evening sitting in pitch black while letting your eyes soar to the vaults…