Nicholos Wethington
Sailing the Seas of Titan
The first interplanetary nautical craft may be a boat to explore the methane seas of Titan. A proposed mission to…
An Exotic Source for Cosmic Rays: ‘Baby’ Black Holes
Cosmic rays - particles that have been accelerated to near the speed of light - stream out from our Sun…
Could there be Life on Jupiter and Saturn’s Moons?
The ongoing search for the existence of life that doesn't call the Earth 'home' could potentially find that life right…
First (of many) Gorgeous Pictures from the New VISTA
Well, the WISE infrared all-sky satellite may be delayed until Monday, but the new infrared southern sky survey telescope VISTA…
Fermi Spies Energetic Blazar Flare
[/caption] The blazar 3C 454.3, a bright source of gamma rays from a galaxy 7 billion light-years away just got…
The Shrinking Doughnut Around a Black Hole
[/caption] Homer Simpson would be sad: recent observations of the binary system of a black hole and its companion star…
10 Years of XMM-Newton
[/caption] XMM-Newton, the ESA's premiere space-based X-ray observatory, will celebrate 10 years of spectacular X-ray imaging of our Universe today.…
Very First Image of a Very Hot Star
No, this article is not about Johnny Depp or Angelina Jolie. They may be hot stars, but in comparison to…
‘Space Beer’ Available for Purchase to 250 People
The wait is finally over for those who have been wanting to enjoy a tipple of Sapporo's "Space Barley" beer,…
NASA to Launch WISE on Friday
NASA is getting WISE to the Universe this Friday. That is, they're launching the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new…