A Solar System’s Icy Building Blocks
New images released from the Spitzer space telescope are helping scientists understand how clouds of gas and dust come together…
What Will Huygens Land In?
Cassini's close flyby to Titan in October has only added to the mystery of what the Huygens probe will find…
Black Holes or Galaxies, Which Came First?
Since supermassive black holes were first discovered, astronomers have been wondering if the hole was created first, and then the…
Soyuz 2 Test Successful
A Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia yesterday, completing a test of this modernized version…
What’s Up This Week – Nov 8 – 14, 2004
Greetings fellow skywatchers! We're in for more excitement this week as the Moon occults not one, not two, but three…
Book Review: How NASA Leaned to Fly in Space
The early explorers sailed into a void not knowing what beasts, storms or cliffs might await their travels. Their shear…
Something Oozed on Titan’s Surface
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image of Titan as it sped past the moon on Oct. 26, 2004. It was…
Interview with David A. Hardy
Futures: 50 Years in Space, The Challenge of the Stars, a superb new art book/astronomy guide by David A Hardy…
Rover Toolkits are Still Full
It's been 10 months since the Mars Exploration Rovers arrived at the Red Planet, and their full suite of scientific…
Second Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
A French/US team of astronomers have discovered a second black hole is lurking at the heart of our Milky Way…