New Galaxy Beats Distance Record
An international team of astronomers have found what could be the most distant galaxy ever discovered. Located 13 billion light-years…
Valentine’s Day Greeting from Envisat
The European Space Agency has picked a special image taken by Envisat for Valentine's Day. The radar image is of…
Oldest Quasars Give Clues About Cosmic Dark Age
A new theory from University of Arizona researcher Xiaohui Fan predicts that the supermassive black holes which form the core…
Interplanetary Network Connects Rovers, Orbiters, Agencies and Earth
NASA and the European Space Agency have demonstrated that their spacecraft can talk to each other. In a recent test,…
Spirit Sees Rising Pockets of Warm Air
An instrument on board NASA's Spirit rover has detected warm air thermals rising off the surface of Mars; the first…
Astronomers Find a Huge Diamond in Space
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found a diamond in space, and it's big? really big. The object,…
Space Exploration Commission Holds First Hearing
The commission appointed to investigate the feasibility of US President's Bush's new space initiative held its first public hearing on…
Wallpaper: Spitzer’s Valentine Rose
Just in time for Valentine's Day, here's a 1024x768 wallpaper of nebula NGC 7129 taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope…
Search Ends for Beagle 2
Officials announced today that they have given up search for the Beagle 2 lander, which was supposed to have landed…
New Discoveries About Gravitational Lenses
Astronomers have found several examples of galaxies which bend and focus the light from a more distant object, like a…