Mars Rovers Head for New Sites After Studying Layers
Coarse-grained layers inside Mars' Gusev Crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell. Click to enlarge NASA engineers have moved the Spirit Mars rover…
Book Review: Destination Moon
Perhaps Krafft Ehricke put it best when he said if God wanted us to be a spacefaring race, He would…
Swirly Stormy Saturn
Dynamic Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Click to enlarge Saturn, up close and personal. In this Cassini image, you can see…
Mars Wants You to Have a Nice Day
This is a photograph of the unusually happy Galle Crater on Mars. ESA's Mars Express took a series of 5…
Hubble Finds Xena’s Only a Little Bigger Than Pluto
An artist's illustration of Xena with its moon. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge The powerful Hubble Space Telescope has…
Podcast: Dark Energy Stars
Black holes... you know. Cosmic singularities that can contain the mass of billions of stars like our Sun. Where the…
What’s Up This Week – April 10 – April 17, 2006
Class I Flamsteed. Image credit: Ricardo Borba. Click to enlarge. Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! This week will be filled with meteor…
New Spacecraft Will Search for Lunar Ice
An artist's conception of LRO on its way to the moon. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge NASA announced a…
Astrophoto: Leo 1 by Bernhard Hubl
Leo 1 by Bernhard Hubl Astronomers are beginning to see a pattern in what was previously viewed as the random…
Star Explodes Inside Another Star
Artist's impression of the explosion of RS Ophiuchi. Image credit: David A. Hardy. Click to enlarge Astronomers recently noticed that…