Cassini recently took this image of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus above the planet's sweeping rings. Although the rings are made…
A weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was launched atop a Boeing Delta II rocket on…
NASA has announced that its next Centennial Challenge will invite teams to try and extract air from lunar soil: the…
When high-energy cosmic ray particles crash into the Earth's atmosphere, they produce some of the brightest radio flashes ever seen…
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft turned its gaze on its satellite neighbours recently, and took pictures of both Mars Odyssey…
Cosmologists from Princeton are working on new tests that could help to explain the nature of "dark energy", a mysterious…
Canadian astronomers using the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) Space Telescope have detected that a giant extrasolar planet has…
Astronauts almost unanimously speak about the wonders of their trip into space. Immediately thereafter they qualify their descriptions by bemoaning…
Near the end of 2004, astronomers found a 320 metre (1000 feet) wide space rock that seemed to have the…
A team of amateur Canadian astronomers took the helm at the powerful Gemini 8-metre telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea for…