Genesis Recovery is Going Well
After its crash landing, NASA scientists weren't too hopeful that they'd turn up much science in the wreckage of Genesis'…
Wallpaper: Saturn’s Translucent Rings
This is a 1024x768 desktop wallpaper of a beautiful image of Saturn's rings, taken by Cassini on July 30. This…
Seeing Our Sun’s Future in Other Stars
Mira stars are a special class of variable red giants which pulsate. Over the course of 80-1,000 days, a Mira…
NASA Centres Could Be Damaged by Ivan
Although Hurricane Ivan spared NASA's Kennedy Space Center, several of the agencies other facilities weren't so lucky. The Stennis Space…
It’s Cold, But the View is Great
Researchers from Australia have demonstrated that an observatory in Antarctica can produce images of the sky several times better than…
Comparing Satellite Images of Ivan and Frances
Even as it's battening down the hatches for another rough ride at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA is getting as…
Stream of Particles from Io
Jupiter's moon Io is peppered with volcanoes spewing gas and dust up to 400 km (284 miles) high. You'd think…
Radio Astronomy Will Get a Boost With the Square Kilometer Array
It will probe the dark ages before the era of re-ionization, and perhaps before the birth of the first stars.…
Book Review: The Depths of Space; The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes
Two, uh... people without clothes. That's what comes to mind when people think about the Pioneer space probes. From a…
Robotic Telescopes Team Up
British scientists are working on a project that would link up robotic telescopes around the world so they could get…