SpaceShipOne Problem Resolved
Wired News is reporting that Burt Rutan has resolved the nearly catastrophic problems that cropped up during SpaceShipOne's historic flight…
Brown Dwarf Pair Discovered
Astronomers with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a pair of brown dwarfs circling one another, which should…
Heavy Galaxies Evolved Early
New observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Paranal have disrupted theories that massive galaxies didn't evolve…
Gaia Will Map a Billion Stars
The European Space Agency is working an ambitious new space observatory that will be capable of precisely mapping a billion…
Sea Launch Investigation Begins
The Sea Launch team has begun looking into what caused a launch malfunction during last week's Telstar 18 mission, which…
Rings Pose New Mysteries
NASA scientists have been busy in the last few days, downloading the mountains of data sent back from Cassini when…
Cassini Makes Its First Titan Flyby
Only days after arriving at Saturn, Cassini made its first flyby of Titan, the planet's largest moon. The spacecraft only…
Post your Astro Photos
I've added a new section to the forum called "Astrophotography". Unlike all the other sections of the forum, this one…
A Connection Between Dark Energy and Dark Matter?
The concepts of Dark Matter (hidden mass that surrounds all galaxies) and Dark Energy (an accelerating force on the Universe)…
Asteroids Make Tau Ceti Lethal
Astronomers have found that a nearby star, Tau Ceti, is surrounded by 10 times as many asteroids and comets as…