Hubble Offers a Clear View of a Quasar
Image credit: Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the clearest view of nearby Quasar 3C 273 ever taken in…
Rosetta Will Have to Be Dismantled
Now that Rosetta has been delayed indefinitely from its original mission to visit Comet Wirtanen, technicians have to dismantle the…
Columbia Launches on Science Mission
Image credit: NASA The Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from Cape Canaveral yesterday, carrying the first Israeli astronaut and six…
NASA Announces Shuttle Launch Time
NASA announced the official launch time of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Wednesday, as part of its new policy of…
QuikScat Captures Images of Melting Ice Shelf
Image credit: NASA An instrument on board NASA's Quick Scatterometer spacecraft has detected the earliest melting in Antarctica's Larsen Ice…
Where Should the Next Martian Rovers Land?
Image credit: NASA With only a few months to go before NASA launches its next two rovers to Mars, mission…
Two Astronauts Go for a Spacewalk
Image credit: NASA Astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox enjoyed their first ever walk in space on Wednesday as they…
Nearest Brown Dwarf Found
Image credit: ESO A team of European astronomers have located the closest brown dwarf star ever discovered. Epsilon Indi, located…
Supernova Won’t Destroy the World
Image credit: Hubble Just in case you were worried, it appears that a supernova would have to be really really…
Rosetta Launch Postponed Indefinitely
Just a day after they announced that Rosetta could be flying by the end of the month, the European Space…