Two Milky Way Companion Galaxies Found
An artist's impression of the Milky way galaxy. Image credit: NASA. Click to enlarge Astronomers have turned up two new…
What’s Up This Week – May 8 – May 14, 2006
Download our free "What's Up 2006" ebook, with entries like this for every day of the year. Fra Mauro. Image…
Astrophoto: Omega Centauri by Bernd Flach-Wilken and Volker Wendel
Omega Centauri by Bernd Flach-Wilken and Volker Wendel For thousands of years, we saw ourselves as the focal point of…
Crater Hopmann by SMART-1
ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft captured this photograph of Crater Hopmann, located on the Moon. Only a quarter of the full crater…
Nitrogen Would Indicate Extraterrestrial Life
Martian atmosphere has a very low nitrogen content. Image credit: NASA. Click to enlarge When searching for life, most researchers…
Titan’s Sandy Oceans
Titan's sand dunes. Image credit: NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge When they first noticed the dark equatorial regions on Titan, researchers…
New Technique for Finding Organic Molecules in Meteorites
Tiny particles of meteorites with portions of nitrogen and hydrogen. Image credit: Henner Busemann. Click to enlarge When the Solar…
Hubble Pictures of Red Spot Jr.
Jupiter's junior red spot. Image credit: NASA/ESA. Click to enlarge The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of "Red…
Measuring a Day on Saturn
Dreamy colours of Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Click to enlarge With solid planets, like the Earth and Mars, it's easy…
Huygens Landing Movie
Titan's surface. Image credit: ESA. Click to enlarge Researchers from NASA, ESA and the University of Arizona have put together…