Is Life the Rule or the Exception?
Image credit: ESA Some scientists have theorized that life on Earth began when amino acids, the building blocks of life,…
Bad Weather Scrubs Endeavour Launch
Stormclouds above Cape Canaveral pushed back the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday. NASA meteorologists had been predicting…
Endeavour Launch Time Announced
Space shuttle managers announced the launch time for mission STS-111 on Wednesday afternoon - Endeavour will launch from Cape Canaveral…
Solar Flare Silences Japanese Mars Probe
A solar flare has struck Nozomi, Japan's first probe to Mars, cutting off its communications with Earth. Japanese scientists believe…
Spotlight on the 2MASS Sky Survey
Image credit: 2MASS One of the most groundbreaking work in astronomy being done right now is the Two Micron All-Sky…
Galileo’s Last Look at Io
Image credit: NASA The final images that the Galileo spacecraft will take of Jupiter's moon Io were released today. They…
Evidence of Vast Quantities of Water Ice on Mars
Image credit: NASA As predicted last week, NASA scientists announced that they have discovered evidence of vast deposits of water…
Microwave View of the Universe’s Oldest Light
Image credit: NSF Astronomers from the National Science Foundation and Caltech have created the most detailed images ever made of…
Weather on Brown Dwarf Stars
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from UCLA have found cloudy, stormy atmospheres on brown dwarfs - objects larger…
Europa Could be Very Thick Skinned
Image credit: NASA The evidence is mounting that Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, has an ocean of water…