Hubble Spots a Star’s Finale
Image credit: Hubble The newest image release from the Hubble Space Telescope is of the shredded remnants of Cassiopeia A,…
Station Crew Unload Progress Cargo
Image credit: NASA The crew of the International Space Station spent a busy day on Friday unloading the cargo delivered…
Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Two Satellites
A powerful Ariane 5 rocket lifted off late Friday from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch center in Kourou, French…
Russians Propose Human Mars Mission
Russian space officials have announced their intentions to send human explorers to Mars by 2015. Hoping for International support to…
CONTOUR Comet Mission Launches
Image credit: NASA NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft launched successfully on board a Boeing Delta II rocket this week.…
Chandra Finds a Bull’s Eye Pulsar
Image credit: Chandra The newest image taken with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is of distant supernova remnant SNR G54.1+0.3. The…
Young Stars in an Old Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble Astronomers have spotted a number of young stellar clusters dotted around a very old elliptical galaxy -…
Progress Cargo Ship Launches
Image credit: NASA A Progress supply ship lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to deliver fuel,…
NASA Finds Tiny Cracks in Shuttle Fuel Lines
NASA controllers decided to ground the shuttle fleet this week when they discovered tiny fuel line cracks. The first crack…
Open the pod bay door Universe Today
I think I've finally got everything working properly now, so I wanted to take moment and explain what happened Wednesday…