Two Planet Finding Missions
One of the big goals of astronomy is to answer the question: are we alone? In order to find out…
SpaceShipOne Soars to 65 km on Test Flight
The privately built SpaceShipOne completed another powered flight test on Thursday, this time achieving an altitude of 65 km. Built…
Space Tug Set to Launch in 2007
Orbital Recovery has signed a long term contract with Arianespace to launch five of its space tugs as secondary payloads…
High Mass Stars Form From Discs Too
European astronomers have found a large disc of dust and gas in nebula M 17, which seems to be forming…
Saturn’s Bands Becoming Clearer
As Cassini nears Saturn, new details are becoming clearer, including the banded clouds that make up the planet's atmosphere. When…
Searching for a Way to Test String Theory
String theorists have a problem. They have a set of theories which could explain how all the forces in the…
Great Wall From Space
The European Space Agency's Proba satellite has taken a high resolution image of a segment of the Great Wall of…
Powerful Flare Seen on a Distant Star
Astronomers have had plenty of time to observe the fluctuations of the Sun, but until now, it's been unclear if…
Chandra Sees Violent M87 Galaxy
A new image released from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows the giant elliptical galaxy M87. Bright jets can be seen…
Wallpaper: Dying Star Spins a Spiderweb
Here's a 1024x768 desktop wallpaper of a new nebula image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its technical designation is…