Wallpaper: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope 25th Anniversary
Here's a 1024x768 desktop wallpaper from a deep field image taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to celebrate its 25th anniversary.…
NASA Pushes the Limits with New Awards
NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts has selected 12 proposals for further study as part of its goal of finding revolutionary…
Toutatis Safely Passes the Earth
As predicted, Asteroid Toutatis made its closest approach to the Earth today, passing a mere 1.5 million km (930,000 miles)…
Halfway There: SpaceShipOne Hits Space Again
It was a nailbiter this morning at the Mojave spaceport in California when SpaceShipOne successfully returned to space; half way…
Eat Like a Martian in Alaska
It's been said that an army travels on its stomach. Well, that's true with astronauts too. Especially when they're headed…
Book Review: Leaving Earth
Early rocketeers had a vision. They wanted to enable human beings to safely travel from Earth to any destination in…
Mars Rover Tracks Spotted From Space
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has delivered a series of new photographs of the Red Planet taken in new high detail,…
Here Come The Thirty Metre Telescopes
When it comes to astronomy, size is everything. The biggest telescope on the planet is the 11-metre Hobby-Eberly on Mount…
Toutatis Sneaks Past the Earth on Wednesday
Asteroid Toutatis, a frequent visitor in our neighborhood, will pass as close as 1.5 million km (960,000) miles to the…
How Mars Could Be Losing Its Water
Data accumulated by the ASPERA-3 instrument on board the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft seems to indicate how Mars…