New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope are helping astronomers fine tune their models of star formation, including an estimate…
It appears that galaxies in the early Universe didn't evolve at similar speeds or in the same ways. Almost right…
Cassini has made a few passes of Titan now, and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe has landed on its…
NASA scientists have finally worked out why there's a safe zone in the Earth's radiation belts, thousands of km above…
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I've been investing a lot of time, effort, and money into improving Universe…
Biologists - and all parents - have a pretty good idea that "life begets life". Beginning with the most primitive…
Astronomers have used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton telescope to watch X-rays coming from Jupiter. These X-rays are mostly reflected…
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this photograph of Saturn's F ring that shows distinct twists and kinks. The perturbations are caused…
The quaint view that black holes gobble up matter quickly and efficiently is being replaced with observations and simulations that…
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers. During the vernal equinox it is possible for most observers to see all 110 Messier Objects in…