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…
Saturn and Jupiter Formed Differently
It appears that Jupiter and Saturn formed in completely different ways, according to a new computer simulation sponsored by the…
New Plan to Move an Asteroid
The European Space Agency is considering an ambitious new mission that will attempt to move an asteroid. Named Don Quijote,…