Hubble Sees An Extrasolar Planet’s Atmosphere
Now here's a feat. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to analyze the atmosphere of a gas giant planet orbiting…
Looking at Jupiter, From Mars
Guess who took this picture of Jupiter? Hubble? Keck? A well equipped amateur here on Earth? Nope, it was taken…
Rocket Detonates on the Sea Launch Platform
A Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a Dutch communications satellite detonated on the Sea Launch platform on Tuesday, completely destroying the rocket,…
Hubble’s Main Camera is Offline, Maybe Permanently
One of the Hubble Space Telescope's main science instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has gone offline, and the…
Podcast: Black Hole Questions Answered
Our episode on black holes generated many many questions from listeners. We dip into this bottomless pool of questions and…
What’s Up this Week: January 29 – February 4, 2007
Monday, January 29 - Tonight we will return again to the lunar surface to have a look through binoculars or…
Book Review: Science, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe
Where is our search for life taking us? Or, even simpler, why are we searching? Bruce Jakosky in his book…
Tiny Shutters in the James Webb Telescope Improve its Vision
NASA has a new article on their site describing one of the technologies going into the mighty James Webb Space…
New Views of LCROSS the Moon Smasher
NASA artists have released new images of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. This is a secondary…
First Images of the Sun from STEREO
Remember the recent launch of the STEREO spacecraft? These are two identical solar observing spacecraft which will give astronomers a…