Three Views of Saturn
Image credit: Hubble The planet Saturn reached its maximum tilt towards the Earth last Spring, and astronomers took advantage of…
Hubble Sees Distant Icy Objects
Image credit: Hubble Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered three of the faintest and small objects ever seen…
Senate Approves $15.3 Billion Budget for NASA
Image credit: NASA On the heels of the release of the Columbia Accident Investigation report, the United Stats Senate Appropriations…
Asteroids are Probably a Threat. Maybe?
Image credit: NASA As potentially killer asteroids are announced on an almost yearly basis, the public is started to get…
Keck Gets a Clear View of Asteroid (511) Davida
Image credit: Keck A team of astronomers have used the 10-metre Keck II telescope to create a series of images…
Hubble Took Its Time Watching This Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble The latest image released from the Hubble Space Telescope is of the spiral galaxy NGC 3370, located…
Articles on Universe Today
Hi folks, I've made a pretty significant change to the way Universe Today is structured with this issue. It looks…
Senate Inquiry Comes Down Hard on NASA
With the Columbia accident report complete, US senators began a series of inquiries into how NASA has responded to the…
Grunsfeld Becomes NASA’s Chief Scientist
Image credit: NASA NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced today that astronaut Dr. John Grunsfeld would replace Dr. Shannon Lucid as…
Solar Flares Shuffle Antimatter Around
Image credit: NASA Astronomers believe that the Sun creates and destroys antimatter as part of its natural process of fusion…