Hubble Sees a Dust Storm on Mars
The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this high resolution image of Mars on October 28, 2005; one day before the Red…
Look Up, You Might See a Fireball
Have you seen some really bright meteors in the sky? You might have been lucky enough to see a fireball…
Cosmic Cloudshine
We only see material in the Universe when it's hot enough to glow, like stars, hot clouds of gas or…
Best View of the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), to peer deeper into the heart of…
First Light of the Universe?
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope might have captured images of the first stars in the Universe, glimpsing an era more than…
Methane Producing Bacteria Found in the Desert
Researchers have discovered methane-producing microbes in some of the most inhospitable deserts here in Earth, bolstering the theory that methane…
That Neutron Star Should Be a Black Hole
Astronomers were expecting that a massive star in the Westerlund 1 star cluster should have collapsed into a black hole.…
Mars Express Instrument Working Again
When Mars Express' Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) malfunctioned a few months ago, mission controllers weren't sure they could get it…
Pinpointing Huygens
During Cassini's recent Titan flyby on October 28, 2005, it imaged the area where Huygens landed earlier this year. Of…
Massive Star Has a Hot Partner
Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and unusual stars in the Milky Way, and now NASA's Far Ultraviolet…