Ancient Floods on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this image of an ancient outflow channel in the Ares Vallis region…
Measuring the Shape of Stars
The faster a star spins, the more it flattens out, changing from a sphere to something more egg-shaped. Since stars…
Soyuz Launches Foton-M Spacecraft
An unmanned Foton-M spacecraft was launched today on board a Russian Soyuz-U from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This is a special…
What’s Up This Week – May 30 – June 5, 2005
Greetings fellow Skywatchers! With early dark skies this week, now would be a great opportunity to work on some serious…
Book Review: Four Astronomy Books for Kids
Sharing a passion just makes it sweeter. Getting cosy together under the stars, exploring constellations, going, 'ohh' when a meteor…
Monstrous Stars Spawn a Community of Smaller Stars
A new image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows how a few monstrous stars in a stellar nebula can…
Andromeda is Three Times Larger Than Previously Believed
Astronomers from the US and France have mapped out the motion of a stars in the outskirts of the Andromeda…
Book Review: Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon
Warfare has been the driving force for many technological advances. The Atlas booster, one of rocketry's stars, arose from such…
Carbon/Oxygen Stars Could Explode as Gamma Ray Bursts
An international team of astronomers have found evidence that certain kinds of gamma-ray bursts, which are associated with Type 1C…
Shuttle Getting an Upgraded Fuel Tank
The space shuttle Discovery has returned to NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building to get a new, modified external fuel tank…