Andromeda’s Carnage
An international team of astronomers have mapped a sizable region of space around the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and have found…
Milky Way’s Centre Measured
Radio astronomers have successfully measured an object that surrounds the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way…
Spirit Finds Hints of Past Martian Water
NASA's Spirit Rover has found a rock that seems to have been acted on by water in the past. The…
Gravity Probe B Launch in Two Weeks
The Gravity Probe B spacecraft, which is designed to test two predictions of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, has been…
Wallpaper: Getting Closer to Saturn
Here's the latest desktop wallpaper of Saturn (1024x768), taken by Cassini when it was 56.4 million kilometres from Saturn. The…
Solar Plane Will Attempt to Go Around the Earth
The European Space Agency will be supplying technology to assist adventurer Bertrand Piccard's attempt to fly a solar-powered plane around…
How Many Habitable Earths Are Out There?
Although more than 100 planetary systems have been discovered, astronomers have only found large, Jupiter-sized planets. The real prize will…
Astronomers Discover Mini-Galaxies
A survey with the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) has revealed dozens of miniature galaxies the nearby Fornax galaxy cluster. These are…
Venus Near Pleiades For a Few Days
Venus, currently the brightest "star" in the sky, will spend the next few days passing through the Pleiades star cluster,…
New Images of Titan
Saturn's moon Titan is the largest in the Solar System; at 5,150 km in diameter, it's larger than Mercury and…