A Glimpse at the Future of Our Sun
A team of astronomers recently used Arizona's Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to peer 4 billion years…
NASA Assigns STS-122 Crew
NASA today announced the astronaut assignments for the upcoming STS-122 space shuttle mission, tentatively scheduled for October 2007. The commander…
Earthlike Regions on Titan
New radar images of Titan show surprisingly familiar terrain on Saturn's largest moon. The radar images show a strip 4,500…
At the Centre of the Milky Way
You're looking at the heart of your own galaxy with X-ray specs. This photograph was captured by NASA's Chandra X-Ray…
Powerful Explosion is a Taste of What’s to Come
Earlier this year, astronomers watched a nova explosion blast off the surface of a white dwarf star in the system…
Is Proxima Centauri Flying Solo?
If you want to send an interstellar probe, you're going to chose the closest star. And that would be Proxima…
Cluster Spacecraft Catch a Magnetic Reconnection
ESA's Cluster spacecraft were in the right place at the right time on September 15, 2001. They flew through a…
Genesis 1 Carrying a NASA Experiment
Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable Genesis 1 habitat has a stowaway on board; an experiment for NASA called Genebox. This shoebox-sized experiment…
Astrophoto: The North American and Pelican Nebulae by Don Goldman
We live in a universe filled with galaxies. Galaxies are vast gravitationally bound aggregations of hydrogen gas clouds, stars that…
Explore Mars With Swarms of Rolling Minibots
MIT engineers and scientists are working on a strategy that could unleash a swarm of baseball sized robots onto the…