Planet Discovered with Only 3 Times the Mass of the Earth
Most of the planets found to date have been massive and orbiting their parent stars at a fraction the orbit…
AAS Meeting in St. Louis, June 1-5
It's going be another busy week of space news. That's because thousands of professional astronomers have descended into St. Louis…
How To Weigh a Black Hole: Just Look At Its Galaxy
My father was a rancher, who had the uncanny ability to accurately estimate the weight of each animal in his…
Phoenix Digs on Mars
Phoenix's first dig in the Martian soil. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona The Phoenix lander used its robotic arm…
Launchpad Damaged During Saturday’s Shuttle Launch
Debris falls into the water following Discovery's launch on Saturday. Images from CBS Space Place. The launchpad at Kennedy Space…
Get Ready for High-Energy GLAST
It's not hard to grab someone's attention when you mention the words "super massive black holes," "gamma ray bursts," "cosmic…
Harvesting Solar Power from Space
In a new report, the viability of sending solar panels into space to collect a vast quantity of uninterrupted energy…
It Really Looks Like Ice on Mars
Take a look at this image sent back from the Phoenix lander. On Friday, Phoenix scientist Ray Arvidson said there…
Warm Coronal Loops May Hold the Key to Hot Solar Atmosphere
Coronal loops, the elegant and bright structures threading through the solar surface and into the solar atmosphere, are key to…
Phoenix Spies Possible Ice; TEGA Short Circuit Likely
Scientists from the Phoenix mission say the lander may have exposed ice just beneath Mars surface when soil was blown…