Powerful Explosion is a Taste of What’s to Come
Earlier this year, astronomers watched a nova explosion blast off the surface of a white dwarf star in the system…
Is Proxima Centauri Flying Solo?
If you want to send an interstellar probe, you're going to chose the closest star. And that would be Proxima…
Cluster Spacecraft Catch a Magnetic Reconnection
ESA's Cluster spacecraft were in the right place at the right time on September 15, 2001. They flew through a…
Genesis 1 Carrying a NASA Experiment
Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable Genesis 1 habitat has a stowaway on board; an experiment for NASA called Genebox. This shoebox-sized experiment…
Astrophoto: The North American and Pelican Nebulae by Don Goldman
We live in a universe filled with galaxies. Galaxies are vast gravitationally bound aggregations of hydrogen gas clouds, stars that…
Explore Mars With Swarms of Rolling Minibots
MIT engineers and scientists are working on a strategy that could unleash a swarm of baseball sized robots onto the…
What’s Up this Week: July 17 – July 23, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! As the Moon slowly leaves the scene the observing heats up as we take a look at…
Iani Chaos on Mars
This image captured by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows the Iani Chaos region on Mars, east of Valles Marineris. The…
Rhea Obscures Titan
In this photograph, Saturn's moon Titan is partly obscured by smaller moon Rhea. The difference between the moons' atmosphere is…
Discovery’s Safely on the Ground
Discovery and its crew are safely back on the ground after a 13-day trip into space to visit the International…