Martian Gravity To Be Tested on Mice
Image credit: MIT Researchers from MIT are planning to test the effects of Martian gravity on mammals, by sending 15…
Spirit Rolls Off the Lander
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Spirit rover successfully rolled off the landing platform and out onto the Martian surface this morning,…
Spitzer Image of the Tarantula Nebula
Image credit: NASA/JPL The latest image from the Spitzer Space Telescope is of often-photographed Tarantula Nebula. Spitzer, however, is able…
Star Mimics a Black Hole
Image credit: Chandra Astronomers using the Australia Telescope Compact Array have found a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spitting…
First a Crater, then Head for the Hills
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Spirit Rover has completed its pivoting maneuver atop its landing platform, and it's nearly ready to…
Bush: Human Beings are Heading Into the Cosmos
Image credit: Whitehouse.gov As predicted for several months, US President George W. Bush announced his plan for the future human…
More Radio Shows to Listen To
A mentioned a few months ago that I always tune a couple of science radio programs through the Internet: CBC's…
Binary Systems Could Create Most Nebulae
Image credit: Hubble New research from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory may help to explain the formation and shape of…
New Method for Finding Exploding White Dwarf Stars
Image credit: SDSS Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new method for studying unusual astronomical pairings: pre-cataclysmic…
Rosetta Prepares for Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's comet chasing spacecraft, Rosetta, is being prepared for its trip into space? again.…