China Will Help Develop the Galileo Network
Image credit: ESA The European Union announced on Thursday that China will play a role in the development of the…
SpaceDev Will Build SpaceshipOne Motor.
Image credit: Scaled Scaled Composites announced today that it has selected San Diego-based SpaceDev to build the rocket engine for…
ESA’s View of Hurricane Isabel
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency is helping to track the movement of Hurricane Isabel using its ERS-2 spacecraft,…
Galileo’s Final Study of Jupiter
Image credit: NASA/JPL We're only days away until Galileo's final plunge into Jupiter on September 21. Nearly out of fuel,…
Astronomers Find a Transparent Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble It turns out that a collection of stars orbiting the Andromeda galaxy are actually the remnants of…
More Evidence for Dark Energy
Image credit: Hubble Astronomers have studied the light from 11 new supernovae to help validate the evidence that some kind…
Are We Safe from Gamma Ray Bursts?
Image credit: ESA Gamma ray bursts (or GRBs) are the most powerful known explosions in the Universe. Although astronomers aren't…
New Evidence About the Formation of Galaxies
Image credit: PPARC Astronomers have long believed that galaxy formation in the early Universe was a spectacular event, with smaller…
Chandra Images the Bright Side of the Moon
Image credit: Chandra Although it's usually peering into deep space, Chandra looked a little closer to home and inspected the…
Red Giant Spotted Swallowing its Planets
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers believe they've figured out the explanation for an unusual object V838 Monocerotis -…