Smart-1 is Ready for Launch
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Smart-1 spacecraft has been mated to the top of its Ariane 5 rocket,…
New Map of Debris Around the Milky Way
Image credit: University of Virginia A new survey of the stars surrounding the Milky Way has produced a detailed map…
A Few Small Changes
I made a couple of improvements to Universe Today yesterday, including "Printer-friendly pages". At the bottom of any article on…
Small Telescope Helps Make Observations on Titan
Image credit: NASA Sarah Horst, a planetary sciences major at Caltech, helped astronomers track cloud formations on Saturn's moon Titan…
Sea Launch Heads Out for Next Launch
Image credit: Sea Launch The Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey launch platform headed out to sea on Monday, beginning…
Orbital Space Plane Review Completed
NASA's Orbital Space Plane program reached an important milestone this week with the completion of its Level 1 requirements review.…
New Areas in the Forum
I've added a couple of new areas to the Universe Today Forums which I think will be pretty helpful. The…
Madhavan Nair Selected as New Chairman of ISRO
Image credit: ISRO Mr. G Madhavan Nair has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization…
Brown Dwarf is Actually a Binary System
Image credit: Gemini Astronomers were searching for planets around nearby star Epsilon Indi when they discovered something unusual. A previously-known…
Galileo Plunges Into Jupiter
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally crashed into Jupiter on Sunday, ending 14 years of service to science…