Swift Launch Pushed Back a Day
NASA's Swift spacecraft is sitting on top of a Boeing Delta II rocket at Florida's Cape Canaveral, waiting for technical…
Collapsed Canyons on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this photograph of a series of canyon systems on the surface of…
X-43 Flight Delayed
NASA has pushed back the launch of its X-43A because of instrument trouble used up most of their launch window…
SMART-1 Goes Into Lunar Orbit
The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft is no longer orbiting the Earth... it's orbiting the Moon! The spacecraft has been…
A Brief Interview With Sir Patrick Moore
TV host Sir Patrick Moore has popularized astronomy for almost half a century in the United Kingdom and around the…
What’s Up This Week – Nov 15 – 21, 2004
Welcome back, fellow skywatchers! The "hot" news for this week is, of course, the Leonid Meteor Shower. Where will it…
Baby Planet Puzzles Astronomers
In June, researchers from the University of Rochester discovered a planet around a star so young that it shouldn't exist…
Getting Out of Endurance Might Not Be Easy
Engineers at NASA knew they were taking a risk when they piloted the Opportunity rover into the stadium-sized Endurance crater…
Hubble’s Accidental Asteroid Discovery
Although they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to analyze the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, an international team of astronomers were…
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…