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…
NASA Hopeful About Finding Science in Genesis Wreckage
NASA operators were so concerned about the safety of the fragile capsule from Genesis and its precious cargo of solar…
Astronauts Begin Repairing Oxygen System
The crew on board the International Space Station restarted the malfunctioning Elektron oxygen system on Friday, but shut it down…
NASA’s Satellite Photo of Hurricane Ivan
NASA's Terra satellite took this photograph of Hurricane Ivan as it roared past the island of Jamaica on Saturday. The…
Station’s Oxygen Generator Breaks Down
A generator that supplies oxygen to the International Space Station has broken down, and it could cause a delay for…
Astronomers Watch a Black Hole Eat a Meal
Astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) in Cambridge, England have watched a bundle of matter at the heart of…
Tracking Rainfall, Just By its Gravity
Scientists working with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) have demonstrated that they can track changes in the Earth's…