Deep Impact On a Collision Course for Science
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, beginning a six-month cruise to smash a hole…
New Stars Forming in Our Closest Neighbour
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy located 210,000…
New View of Colliding Galaxies
The W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii took this photograph of two galaxies about to collide over 5 billion light-years away…
Gemini Sees Smashing Planetesimals
Astronomers using the giant Gemini South 8-metre telescope in Chile have spotted what seems to be a collision between two…
Huygens Descent Timeline
On Friday, January 14, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe will plunge through the atmosphere of Saturn's smog-enshrouded moon Titan.…
Super Star Clusters Started Small
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped to reveal a trio of massive, young star clusters which might have been formed…
White Dwarf Theories Get More Proof
New observations using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite have given astronomers evidence that their assumptions and calculations about…
Blobs Could Be Merging Galaxies
One mystery has been puzzling astronomers for a few years now; strange distant clouds of intensely glowing material located billions…
Planned Descent Path for Huygens
Engineers at NASA and the European Space Agency have calculated Huygen's descent through Titan's atmosphere tomorrow, and they think they…
Sedna Might Have Formed Past Pluto
Astronomers recently announced the discovery of Sedna, a nearly Pluto-sized object on a 12,500 year-long orbit around the Sun. New…