Quasars Come From Stable Homes
Quasars are some of the brightest and most distant objects ever observed, and astronomers used to believe they only existed…
More Information About Icy Moons Mission
NASA has released more detailed requirements for its upcoming mission to Jupiter's icy moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter would…
Rosetta Focuses on LINEAR
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to meet up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 10 years. It'll get to…
Swirls on Saturn
To celebrate Cassini's arrival at Saturn, the imaging team is going to be releasing a new photograph every day detailing…
Heaviest Stars are Twins
Astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found the heaviest star ever seen - 80 times the mass of…
Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs in Hours
It seems that when an asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, the resulting heat pulse incinerated every dinosaur…
Binary Black Holes Modeled on Computer
Researchers from Penn State University have developed a computer model that describes the interaction of a binary black hole system;…
Gravity Probe B’s First Month in Space
It's been a month since NASA launched the Gravity Probe B; an experiment designed to test Einstein's predictions about gravity…
ESA Releases Its Findings on Beagle 2
The European Space Agency released its official inquiry into the loss of the Beagle 2 lander, and made 19 recommendations…
In the Shadow of Saturn’s Rings
The newest photo released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on May 10, 2004 at a distance of only 27.2…