What If We Burn Everything?
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a detailed model of the Earth's climate over the next few…
Canyons on Dione
This photograph of Saturn's moon Dione was taken by Cassini on Sept. 20, 2005 from a distance of 2.1 million…
Two New Moons for Pluto?
Time to revise your idea of Pluto. New images gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that this distant…
Book Review: Strange Angel
Is science fiction an arena where fantasies run wild or an experimental lab where new technologies, cultures and even physics…
What’s Up This Week – October 31 – November 6, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! We begin the week on the eve of All Hallows as we learn the significance the Pleiades.…
Power Problem with SSETI Express
Things haven't gone well for the student-built SSETI Express, launched last week from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on board a Russian…
Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will… on Mars
When you're exploring new territories, all kinds of things can go wrong. When you're exploring millions of kilometres away from…
Spitzer Presents Black Widow Nebula for Halloween
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this chilling image of the Black Widow Nebula for Halloween. In this image, there are…
Amateur Observers Are Seeing Double
As Derek Breit headed for Fremont, California on April 15 to observe a lunar grazing event, little did he know…
First Mirror Cast for the Giant Magellan Telescope
Workers at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab have cast the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope.…