Spirit Closes in on Columbia Hills
NASA's Spirit Rover took some new panoramic images of the "Columbia Hills", still a distant 2 kilometres, and 52 days…
Space Station Gyro Breaks Down
A gyroscope failed on board the International Space Station Wednesday evening, but NASA says that it doesn't pose a risk…
Gravity Probe B is Working Fine
NASA has checked out its recently launched Gravity Probe B spacecraft, and everything seems to be working fine. The solar…
Arctic Ice Formation is More Complex Than Previously Thought
New observations show that Arctic sea ice isn't completely static; it undergoes back and forth motions twice a day, no…
Another Gathering of Planets
Four planets are gathering in the night time sky, and the view is spectacular. On the evening of April 22,…
Arecibo Gets an Upgrade
The giant Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico - already the largest and most sensitive single dish in the world…
Saturn in Four Wavelengths
The latest image of Saturn released from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the Ringed Planet in four wavelengths: ultraviolet, visible blue,…
Book Review: Einstein’s Cosmos
We do live. We age. We move. Time is how we refer to the transfer of ourselves from our beginning…
Wallpaper: Galaxy with a Ring of Star Formation
To celebrate the 14th anniversary of its launch, the operators of the Hubble Space Telescope have released this image of…
Not Getting the Newsletter?
In theory, I send out Universe Today every weekday (Mon-Fri) some time during the day. I do occasionally miss a…