Sea Launch Launches Americas-8 Satellite

19 years ago

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

19 years ago

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

19 years ago

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

19 years ago

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

19 years ago

Physicists at MIT have successfully created a new form of matter in their laboratory; a gas that shows superfluidity at…

Extrasolar Planet Reshapes Ring Around a Star

19 years ago

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a narrow, dusty ring around nearby star Fomalhaut. Although they…

Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered

19 years ago

Astronomers have discovered a binary system of a blue giant and a pulsar that operate as a natural particle accelerator,…

Solar Sail Goes Missing

19 years ago

The Planetary Society's solar sail prototype Cosmos 1 was launched from a Russian submarine yesterday, but it seems have gone…

Mars Express Booms All Deployed

19 years ago

All three MARSIS booms on Mars Express are now fully deployed, and the spacecraft is ready to begin searching Mars…

Podcast: Into the Submillimeter

19 years ago

When you look into the night sky with your eyes, or through a telescope, you're seeing the Universe in the…