New Targets to Search For Life on Europa
Image credit: NASA A new study of Jupiter's moon Europa may help explain how giant ice domes can form on…
“Killer” Asteroid will Miss
Additional observations from astronomers have decreased the likelihood to virtually zero that Asteroid 2003 qq47 will strike the Earth in…
Planetery Tilts Might Not Be a Big Problem
Image credit: NASA Scientists have believed that the tilt of the Earth's axis is very important to supporting life on…
Asteroid Risk Lowered
When Asteroid 2003 qq47 was discovered last week from a tracking system in New Mexico, astronomers predicted that it could…
Progress Docks with Station
Image credit: NASA The Russian Progress cargo ship launched last week caught up and docked with the International Space Station…
Farewell Mars
It's been a couple of days since Mars made its closest approach so it's time for the news media to…
How Huygens Will Land on Titan
Image credit: ESA One significant event in the Cassini mission will be when the Huygens probe is deployed to Saturn's…
Progress Supply Ship Launches for the Station
Image credit: RSA An unmanned Progress 12 supply ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver a new…
Earth-Based Telescopes Search for Martian Water
Image credit: UKIRT Astronomers are searching for evidence of past water on Mars from the comfort of an observatory in…
Infrared Ring Around a Young Star
Image credit: ESO A new image taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows an infrared halo…