First View of Rhea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image of Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon on June 2, 2004, when it was 990,000…
All Moved In, Now I Need a New Telescope
Well, we survived the trip and have moved into our new house on Vancouver Island. It was pretty easy on…
Hawking Revises Black Hole Theory
Stephen Hawking has reconsidered his long-held opinion that black holes destroy information that goes into them. Originally he believed that…
Spitzer Finds Starburst Galaxies
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered a group of ancient galaxies that had eluded astronomers using other telescopes. The primordial…
New Frontiers Missions Shortlisted
NASA has shortened its list of potential missions for its New Frontiers program down to two spacecraft. The first is…
Hotspot Found on Geminga
Astronomers have detected a small bright spot on a familiar neutron star, Geminga, located 500 light-years away. The hot spot…
Aura Finally Launches
After several days of delays, NASA's Aura Earth observation satellite launched on Thursday atop a Boeing Delta II rocket. The…
Spirit’s Got a Bad Wheel
Engineers with NASA have decided to get Spirit to drive up the Columbia Hills backwards because of an ongoing problem…
Saturn’s Two-Faced Moon
Why does Iapetus have a dark side and bright side? That's a mystery scientists hope that the Cassini spacecraft will…
Anik F2 Launched on Ariane 5
The world's largest commercial communications satellite, Telstar's Anik F2, was launched atop an Ariane 5G rocket today. The rocket lifted…