Earth’s leaky atmosphereBY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 29, 2008 ESA’s formation-flying Cluster satellites have discovered the physical...
Mars rover Opportunity ascends out of craterNASA/JPL NEWS RELEASEPosted: August 30, 2008 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has...
Origin of Crab Nebula's high-energy emission located EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY NEWS RELEASEPosted: September 2, 2008 Thanks to data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray...
Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit the Moon 09.02.2008 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list Sept. 2, 2008: There's...
Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxySPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE NEWS RELEASEPosted: September 2, 2008 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found...
Analysis begins on Mars lander's deepest soil sampleNASA/JPL NEWS RELEASEPosted: September 2, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. -- Scientists have begun to analyze a sample...
STEAM DEVILS: Steam devil season is underway. In late summer-early fall when waters are still warm but morning air is growing cold, little tornadoes of steam...
Marte não tem canais artificiais, como queriam os astrônomos Schiaparelli e Lovell – em teorias que deram origem aos "marcianos inteligentes" –, mas...
McCain to Bush: Keep Space Shuttle Options Open By Brian BergerSpace News Staff Writerposted: 26 August 200807:17 pm ET WASHINGTON – Acknowledging that a...
Astrônomos descobrem novo asteróide de 'origem exótica' Chris Lintott Co-apresentador do programa BBC Sky at Night Novo asteróide é formado por gelo e...
Telescópio espacial faz mapa de buracos negros gigantes no Universo Quem sente desconforto ao imaginar que o Universo é salpicado de megaburacos negros pode...
Rosetta Prepares for Meet-Up With Asteroid Next Week Written by Nancy Atkinson Asteroid Steins imaged by Rosetta's OSIRIS camera in two locations. ESA’s...
Earth's Atmosphere is Leaking into Space Written by Nancy Atkinson Artist impression of ions leaking into space. Credit: NASA/ESA Oxygen is constantly leaking...
Still Mythbusting Written by Nancy Atkinson If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It seems fitting that today's...
Large Hadron Collider Rap Is a Hit Written by Nancy Atkinson Kate McAlpine at the LHC. Credit: Telegraph Puzzled about particle physics? Want to know what the...
Scientists See Moon as Research Outpost, Training Ground By Leonard DavidSpecial Correspondent, SPACE.composted: 26 August 2008 7:00 am ET MOFFETT FIELD,...
Phoenix digs into extended mission BY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 26, 2008 Today, the 90th Martian sol and the end of the originally planned...
Opportunity to leave Victoria CraterBY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 27, 2008 After nearly a year of daring exploration within Victoria Crater,...
The interplanetary map-making maverick BY KEITH COOPER ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 22, 2008 Photographs of other worlds taken by spacecraft only tell us so...
Exoplanet Search Strategies An artist's conception of one of the two giant planets orbiting the red-dwarf star Gliese 876. The other is the tiny dot close to...
How does my galaxy grow? A team of astronomers is assembling the most massive galaxies in the universe. Provided by the ESO This composite color-image shows...
A magnetic monster in an erupting galaxy Hubble images the strong magnetic field around galaxy NGC 1275. Provided by the Hubble European Space Agency The...
Generations of stars pose for family portrait BY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 26, 2008 In celebration of Spitzer’s five years in orbit, a...
Phoenix continues digging The lander digs deeper as its third month on Mars comes to an end. Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phoenix captured this...
Clash of clusters provides new dark matter clue BY DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: August 28, 2008 A dramatic collision between galaxy clusters captured...
Most black holes might come in only small and largeNASA/JPL NEWS RELEASEPosted: August 21, 2008 Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times...
SS Cygni in outburst The variable star reaches 9th magnitude and should get brighter. Glenn Chaple SS Cygni will falre again. Continually observe its region...