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…
Coprates Chasma on Mars
This image, taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft shows a region of Mars' Valles Marineris canyon system…
Capturing the Fastest Events in the Universe
A new high-speed camera has been mounted to the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. This ultra fast…
First Aurora Seen on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has discovered an aurora in the Martian atmosphere. In addition to Earth, auroras…
Possible Methane Volcano Discovered on Titan
Scientists have found what looks like a volcano on the surface of Titan, which could contribute to the methane in…
SMART-1 Finds Calcium on the Moon
The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft has discovered deposits of calcium on the Moon for the first time. The discovery…
The Search for Positronium
If you could look into the sky with gamma ray eyes, you'd see gamma ray bursts, and other sources of…
Afterlife of a Supernova
Stars - like people - are born, grow, mature, and die. But out of stellar death comes new life, as…