Asteroid Ceres Could Have Large Amounts of Water
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres, might have huge…
Biblis Patera Volcano
This is an image of the Biblis Patera volcano's caldera which was taken by the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Biblis…
Surprising Insights Into Comet Tempel 1
Even though Deep Impact smashed into Comet Tempel 1 several months ago, scientists are still analyzing the data gathered before…
Saturn’s Deep Dynamic Clouds
Cassini has found that Saturn, like the Earth, has many different kinds of clouds. Some are hazy bands, high up…
What’s Up This Week – September 5 – September 11, 2005
Greetings, fellow Sky Watchers! While the Moon will figure prominently in our studies this week, let's start off with telescopic…
Cassini Scientists Make New Ring Discoveries
Cassini scientists have announced a host of new findings about Saturn's rings, including some new knotted structures in the planet's…
Star Gobbles Up Its Friend
The ESA's Integral space observatory and NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft have found a rapidly spinning pulsar in the…
Pandora Shepherding the Rings
In this photograph taken by Cassini, you can see the faint moon Pandora moving through Saturn's F ring. As a…
Building Life from Star-Stuff
There's a long chain of events that led from the collapse of our local cloud of gas and dust to…
The New Forum is Online
As I mentioned a few days ago, Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy and I have decided to merge our two…