Sea Launch Lofts Echostar IX/Telstar 13
Image credit: Sea Launch The dual-use Echostar IX/Telstar 13 satellite was successfully placed into orbit Thursday on board a Zenit-3SL…
ESA’s Lunar Mission Prepares for Launch
The European Space Agency's first spacecraft mission to the Moon, SMART-1, is being prepared for launch at the end of…
Malfunctioning Instrument on Spirit
An instrument on board Spirit, one of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, has malfunctioned, potentially limiting the amount of data that…
Asteroids Named for Lost Astronauts
Image credit: NASA Seven asteroids were recently renamed to honour the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia. The asteroids are…
Hubble Looks at Our Closest Cluster
Image credit: Hubble The newest image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals one of the nearest globular star clusters, NGC…
Planning a Mars Party?
With Mars the closest it's going to be in 60,000 years on August 27, I figure this'll be a good…
Astronomers Measure the Shape of a Supernova
Image credit: ESO New data gathered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) seems to indicate that supernovae…
Perseid Meteor Shower Next Week
Image credit: ESA The annual Perseid meteor shower is due to make its appearance in mid-August this summer. The shower…
Asteroid Juno Has a Chunk Out of It
Image credit: Harvard New images taken by the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory show Asteroid Juno with a…
Canada’s Space Telescope Begins Operations
Image credit: CSA After one month in space, Canada's Microvariability & Oscillations of STars (MOST) space telescope began operations for…