Discovery Won’t Launch Before Sunday
NASA has announced that the space shuttle Discovery's earliest launch window will be on Sunday, July 17 at 1914 UTC…
Satellite Can Tell When Ice is Melting
The analysis software that NASA uses to inspect photographs of the Earth is starting to recognize changing events on our…
Planet Found in Triple Star System
A backdrop in many science fiction stories is to have multiple suns in the sky. Astronomers have now found such…
Superwinds Seen in Distant Galaxies
Astronomers have discovered a massive explosion in a galaxy 11.5 billion light years away. This explosion is producing streams of…
Malfunctioning Fuel Gauge Delays Shuttle
The return to flight launch of the space shuttle Discovery was delayed Wednesday when a faulty fuel gage failed a…
Cluster Spacecraft Give Each Other Some Room
The European Space Agency's fleet of 4 Cluster spacecraft put a little more distance between each other, during a difficult…
Will We Find Super Earths?
As techniques and equipment for finding extrasolar planets improve, astronomers are finding planets with smaller masses. First it was Jupiter-sized…
Three Space Telescopes Find a Neutron Star
An international team of astronomers have discovered a hidden neutron star using three different space observatories: Integral, Swift and Rossi.…
Prometheus Shepherding the Rings
In this beautiful image, Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus hovers above the planet's A and F rings. It's also possible to…
Supercomputer Will Study Galaxy Evolution
A new supercomputer has been installed at the Rochester Institute of Technology to simulate the interactions between black holes and…