Satellite View of Istanbul
This satellite view of Istanbul, taken by the ESA's Envisat satellite, was taken using its Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR).…
Cebreros is Ready and Listening
The European Space Agency's new powerful 35-metre radio antenna in Cebreros, Spain came online earlier this month, to assist communications…
Planets Under Construction
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a massive planetary zone forming around the star system TW Hydrae.…
Pan’s Influence on the Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this photograph of Saturn's moon Pan, embedded in the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring. In…
Bumpy Dust Makes Molecular Hydrogen
The most common element in the Universe is hydrogen, and much of that is molecular hydrogen, where two atoms are…
Sea Launch Launches Americas-8 Satellite
A Zenit-3SL rocket blasted off from the Sea Launch platform today, carrying the Intelsat Americas-8 communications satellite into a geosynchronous…
June 25th Conjunction: Mercury, Venus and Saturn
Few celestial events attract such widespread media attention as what is inappropriately named a planetary alignment. Because of their orbits…
Book Reviews: Glow in the Dark Planets, From Blue Moons to Black Holes
Vacation time's arrived. You're in the car driving to your little piece of heaven. Then, from the depths of the…
New Horizons Prepares to Zoom to Pluto
The New Horizons mission to Pluto has been called ?The First Mission to the Last Planet,? and it?s the first…
New Form of Matter Created
Physicists at MIT have successfully created a new form of matter in their laboratory; a gas that shows superfluidity at…