Audio: Homing Beacon for an Asteroid
Asteroids have been roughing up the Earth since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. Hundreds of thousands of potentially devastating…
What’s Up This Week – June 6 – June 12, 2005
Greetings, fellow Skywatchers! The week begins with a New Moon and an opportunity to study the rich galactic region around…
Book Review: The Real Space Cowboys
Diaries hold the accounts of some of the dearest, most precious moments of our lives. The pleasure of a first…
Supernova Left No Core Behind
When supernova 1987A blew up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it was the closest supernova in over 300 years, and…
Opportunity Rolls Free from the Dune
When Opportunity got its wheels stuck in a sand dune more than a month ago, operators had no idea it…
Strange Ozone Hole this Year
Even through large levels of ozone were destroyed in the Earth's atmosphere this winter, NASA's Aura spacecraft detected that the…
View Through the Rings
Cassini took this beautiful photograph of Saturn, shrouded behind its own rings. This image was taken in visible light on…
Mars Phoenix Mission Prepares for 2007 Launch
NASA announced today that it has begun preparing the Mars Phoenix lander spacecraft for its August 2007 launch to the…
Following the Dust Trail
On March 13, 1986, the ESA probe, Giotto, had a close encounter - a close encounter with a visitor from…
Recent Blast was Probably a Neutron Star Collision
When astronomers started analyzing the recent gamma ray burst GRB050509b, they knew right away that they were seeing something very…