What’s that Bunny on Mars?
When Opportunity sent back the first images from the surface of Mars, there was a strange object that puzzled amateurs…
Opportunity Sees Phobos and Deimos
NASA's Mars rovers stopped looking down for a bit to watch the Sun. Specifically, they were looking to see Mars'…
Now Spirit Finds Evidence of Past Water
Last week, NASA announced with much fanfare that Opportunity had found evidence that the region of Mars was once drenched…
Spitzer Looks at a Stellar Nursary
The newly-launched Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the Henize 206 nebula, located 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The…
Saturn’s X-Ray Mystery
New images of Saturn taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory show that X-ray emissions, which are reflected radiation from the…
Silicate Found in a Meteorite
A group of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis found nine specks of silicate stardust inside a primitive meteorite,…
Tom Hanks to Make New IMAX Film
Tom Hanks' production company, Playtone, is set to create a new IMAX film based on the Apollo missions. The film…
Space Commercialization Bill Approved
The US House of Representatives today approved bill H.R. 3752, The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004. This bill…
NASA Finds Smoke Can Choke Clouds
Using data from NASA's Aqua satellite, scientists have found that the smoke from burning vegetation can inhibit the formation of…
Peering into the First Moments After the Big Bang
British astronomers have used a radio telescope called the Very Small Array to probe the cosmic background radiation; an afterglow…