Mercury and Pluto
[/caption] Before Pluto was discovered, there were 8 planets in the Solar System; and Mercury was the smallest. And then…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: July 3-5, 2009
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a Moon-filled weekend? Then let's have a look a some great lunar features…
Happy Fourth of July!
[/caption] Astronomers working with the Subaru Telescope have released these new images of a "fireworks display" in a near-infrared image of…
Perchlorates and Water Make for Potential Habitable Environment on Mars
[/caption] Scientists say that the Arctic region studied by Phoenix lander may be a favorable environment for microbes. Just-right chemistry…
First Images from LRO
[/caption] Woohoo! NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken its first images of the Moon! There are two cameras on board…
By Gamma-Rays Alone: Fermi Raises the Curtain on 16 New Pulsars
[/caption] For the first time, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has spotted a new group of pulsars using only their gamma-ray…
Phoenix Lander Team: It Snows at Night on Mars
[/caption] It snows on Mars. This occurs, at least in the northern arctic region where the Phoenix lander set up…
Messier 87 Shows Off for Hundreds of Earth-bound Astronomers
[/caption] When the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M 87) unleashed a torrent of gamma radiation and radio flux, an…
Test-Bed Rover is Now Stuck — Which is a Good Thing!
[/caption] Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have intentionally driven their engineering rover into soft soil in a sandbox testbed,…
WiFi in Space Coming Soon?
[/caption] Although current astronauts are Twittering and blogging from space, it's a cumbersome process as the ISS, shuttle and Soyuz…