Spirit Sees Layered Rock in Nearby Hills
Well into their extra exploration time, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers are continuing to make discoveries on the Red Planet. Spirit…
Chandra Finds a Gamma Ray Blast Remnant
Combined data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Palomar 200-inch telescope have uncovered the remnant of a gamma-ray burst…
Super-Clusters of Galaxies Give Clues to the Big Bang
Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have embarked on a decade-long study of some of the largest structures, galaxy clusters,…
SpaceShipOne’s Launch Date Set
The first privately built manned spacecraft will rocket into space on June 21 according to a recent announcement from Scaled…
NASA Considering Robotic Mission to Save Hubble
NASA announced on Tuesday that it was officially considering sending a robotic mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope, instead…
Spitzer Shows the Pinwheel Nebula
The latest image released from the Spitzer Space Telescope is of galaxy M33, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. It's…
Black Hole at the Heart of a Nebula
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found what they believe is an intermediate sized black hole at the…
Catching Stars in the Act of Forming Planets
Most research seems to indicate that planets form around stars in only the first few million years. Many stars have…
New Black Holes Found in a Virtual Observatory
A team of European astronomers has used a virtual observatory to find 30 previously undiscovered black holes. The team combined…
Detailed Image of Saturn’s Storms
In this latest image of Saturn taken by Cassini, you can see several of the storms that rage across the…