Three new moons discovered for Neptune
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered three previously unknown moons orbiting…
Rosetta Due for Late January Launch
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will be the first spacecraft to ever orbit and then land…
Binary Star Ejected From its System
Astronomers from the University of Mexico have found a distant star system where a small, young star has been flung…
Columbia Countdown Gets Started
Under a cloak of high security, NASA began the launch countdown for the Space Shuttle Columbia on Monday. If all…
ICESat Launches
Image credit: NASA A satellite designed to track the changes in the Earth's major ice sheets was launched on Sunday…
Hubble Spots Earliest Bright Objects
Image credit: Hubble The most recent photos released from the Hubble Space Telescope show objects so old they might be…
Gravity Moves at the Speed of Light
Image credit: NRAO Theorized by Einstein for almost a century, physicists have found evidence to support the theory that the…
Neptune Has a Trojan
Astronomers have discovered a new object which shares a very similar orbit with Neptune. Part of a classification of objects…
Protoplanetary Disk Found Around a Star
Image credit: Hubble The new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a clear disk…
Hubble Uses Galactic Lens to Look Further
Image credit: Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural 2-million-light-year wide "zoom lens" to look further into space…