Since it's in my neighbourhood, globally speaking, I thought I'd mention that the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, which is located…
Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft arrived at Asteroid Itokawa earlier this week, and now it's sending back beautiful images. This image is…
Saturn's moon Pan occupies the Encke Gap. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI Click to enlarge Saturn's moon Pan occupies the Encke Gap…
A team of Canadian engineers have developed a tiny 3.5 kg satellite that could unleash a whole new industry of…
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a supermassive black hole without a surrounding galaxy. These black holes and their galaxies…
In preparation for its arrival at Mars next year, NASA has begun putting the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter through its paces.…
A recent conversation on the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum got me thinking. Member "parallaxicity" wanted to know where the next…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have used primitive meteorites called chondrites to develop a model of the Earth's…
Cassini scientists have assembled this mosaic image of a region on Titan called Fensal-Aztlan. The northern part of the region,…
The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft malfunctioned a few months ago, and the agency…