Proton Launches Eutelsat Satellite
A Proton Breeze M rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday night, carrying the Eutelsat Hot Bird 8…
False Colour View of Hyperion
This view of Saturn's moon Hyperion has been given false colour enhancements to highlight its geologic features. Photographs in ultraviolet,…
SMART-1’s Final Days
After 16 months of successful observations, ESA's SMART-1 is about to make its final contribution to lunar science. On September…
Dark Energy Mission Chosen
A new space telescope concept has been chosen by NASA to help uncover the source of dark energy; the mysterious…
Twin Planemos Discovered
Astronomers have turned up plenty of extrasolar planets, but a newly discovered binary pair of planets is quite the find.…
Brown Dwarf Lived Inside Another Star
ESO's Very Large Telescope has uncovered an interesting stellar pair: a hot white dwarf and a brown dwarf orbiting each…
Podcast: A Puzzling Difference
Imagine looking at red houses, and sometimes you see a crow fly past. But every time you look at a…
Astrophoto: NGC 6755 and 6756 by Bernhard Hubl
Stars arise at the heart of great interstellar clouds that have collapsed under their own weight. These free-floating clouds are…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spots
Astronomers from UC Berkeley used the massive W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to capture this infrared image of Jupiter and…
Hubble View of a Supernova Remnant
This Hubble Space Telescope photograph contains a supernova remnant located in the Small Magellanic Cloud - it's bluish haze at…