Close View of Phobos
This photograph of Phobos, one of Mars' two tiny moons, was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft…
Mapping the Early Universe in 3 Dimensions
American and Australian researchers are working on a method to develop a 3-dimensional map that will show how the Universe…
Density Waves in Saturn’s Rings
Researchers have used the Cassini spacecraft to make observations of Saturn's rings with tremendous clarity, resolving images down to the…
Icy Objects Could Be Smaller Than Previously Thought
Is Pluto a planet or just a really large Kuiper Belt Object (KBO)? Those arguing that it doesn't deserve planetary…
Launch Date Set for Solar Sail
The countdown has begun for the launch of the Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 spacecraft; the first ever to be powered…
X-Ray Portrait of Proxima Centauri
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this image of red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbour (after the Sun,…
A Solar System’s Icy Building Blocks
New images released from the Spitzer space telescope are helping scientists understand how clouds of gas and dust come together…
What Will Huygens Land In?
Cassini's close flyby to Titan in October has only added to the mystery of what the Huygens probe will find…
Black Holes or Galaxies, Which Came First?
Since supermassive black holes were first discovered, astronomers have been wondering if the hole was created first, and then the…
Soyuz 2 Test Successful
A Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia yesterday, completing a test of this modernized version…