Neutrino Evidence Confirms Big Bang Predictions
Astronomers have built up a map of neutrinos that existed when the Universe was very young, and have found that…
Audio: Get Ready for Deep Impact
July 4th is Independence Day In the United States, and Americans typically enjoy their holiday with a few fireworks. But…
Planetary Systems Can Form in Hellish Surroundings
In the brutal environment of the Orion Nebula, where temperatures soar to 10,000-degrees C (18,000-degrees F), and the stellar winds…
Podcast: Get Ready for Deep Impact
July 4th is Independence Day In the United States, and Americans typically enjoy their holiday with a few fireworks. But…
Large Rocky Planet Discovered
Astronomers have found the most Earthlike extrasolar planet discovered so far. This new planet is about 7.5 times the mass…
What’s Up This Week – June 13 – June 19, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The week starts with the zero equation of time, but there's still time for you to locate…
Book Review: Deep Space NASA Mission Reports
The Jeopardy TV game show challenges people to answer trivia questions about minutia. Being successful requires a contestant to fill…
Mmmm, Food From Mars
French chefs are helping the European Space Agency develop recipes that could be used to make food grown in space…
Pluto Mission Arrives at NASA for Testing
All the planets in our solar system have been visited by a spacecraft, except one... Pluto. The spacecraft that will…
Spitzer View of a Dead Star
In 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed the supernova that created the stellar remnant Cassiopeia A. All that remains from this…