Pan’s Influence on the Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this photograph of Saturn's moon Pan, embedded in the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring. In…
Bumpy Dust Makes Molecular Hydrogen
The most common element in the Universe is hydrogen, and much of that is molecular hydrogen, where two atoms are…
Sea Launch Launches Americas-8 Satellite
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
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
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
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
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
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a narrow, dusty ring around nearby star Fomalhaut. Although they…
Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered
Astronomers have discovered a binary system of a blue giant and a pulsar that operate as a natural particle accelerator,…
Solar Sail Goes Missing
The Planetary Society's solar sail prototype Cosmos 1 was launched from a Russian submarine yesterday, but it seems have gone…