Hayabusa’s Photo of Itokawa
Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft arrived at Asteroid Itokawa earlier this week, and now it's sending back beautiful images. This image is…
Pan’s Corridor
Saturn's moon Pan occupies the Encke Gap. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI Click to enlarge Saturn's moon Pan occupies the Encke Gap…
Tiny Satellite Could Make a Big Difference
A team of Canadian engineers have developed a tiny 3.5 kg satellite that could unleash a whole new industry of…
Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Has No Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a supermassive black hole without a surrounding galaxy. These black holes and their galaxies…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is Doing Well
In preparation for its arrival at Mars next year, NASA has begun putting the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter through its paces.…
Let’s Find Life
A recent conversation on the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum got me thinking. Member "parallaxicity" wanted to know where the next…
Early Atmosphere Looked Very Different From Today
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have used primitive meteorites called chondrites to develop a model of the Earth's…
Fensal-Aztlan Region on Titan
Cassini scientists have assembled this mosaic image of a region on Titan called Fensal-Aztlan. The northern part of the region,…
Investigation Into One of Mars Express’ Instruments
The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft malfunctioned a few months ago, and the agency…
Giant Jet Streams
Jupiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL Click to enlarge Turbulence driven by sunlight and thunderstorm activity may explain the multiple east-west jet…