Cassini Will Reach Phoebe Today
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first and only flyby of Saturn's moon Phoebe on Friday at 2056…
It Doesn’t Get Much Hotter Than Io
When Galileo went past Jupiter's moon Io, it found parts of it reached temperatures as high as 1,610 degrees Celsius…
Wallpaper: Flood Plains on Mars
Here's a 1024x768 wallpaper of a region of Mars called Mangala Valles taken by the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The…
Gemini Goes Silver
The 8-metre Gemini South telescope has been coated with pure silver to give it more resolution when viewing objects in…
Molecular Nitrogen Found Outside our Solar System
Astronomers have used the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite to detect molecular nitrogen in interstellar space. Nitrogen is common…
Europeans Agree to Build Instrument for Webb Telescope
The European Space Agency has decided on how it will contribute to the construction of the next generation James Webb…
New Estimate for the Mass of Higgs Boson
Since its existence was first theorized in the 1960s, scientists have been searching for the mysterious Higgs boson. This subatomic…
Phoebe: Cassini’s First Target
Now only three weeks from entering orbit around Saturn, it's time for Cassini to begin making some close up observations.…
New Horizons Mission Will Measure the Solar Wind out at Pluto
Scheduled for launch in 2006, the New Horizons mission will finally get a close up view of Pluto, the only…
New Simulation Improves Ideas of Galaxy Formation
A new simulation of galaxy formation developed at the University of Chicago does a much better job of predicting what…