Astronomy
Watch the Mars Explorer Launch Live
If you're going to be anywhere near a computer connected to the Internet on Tuesday, why not tune into NASA…
New Station Modules Arrive in Florida
Image credit: NASA Two major components of the International Space Station arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this…
Astronomers Begin a Massive Survey of the Milky Way
Image credit: RAVE Researchers from 11 countries are working together to measure the motion and composition of 50 million stars…
Closest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Discovered
Image credit: NRAO Gamma ray bursts (GRB) are the largest known explosions in the Universe; immensely powerful, quick to fade,…
Sea Launch Heads for the Equator
Image credit: Sea Launch The Odyssey Launch Platform and Sea Launch Commander set sail from their port in Los Angeles…
Astronomers Weigh a Pulsar’s Planets
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers have weighed a group of planets orbiting a pulsar by precisely measuring their…
A View of the Universe Only 900 Million Years Old
Image credit: ESO A team of astronomers based in Hawaii have discovered a distant galaxy 12.8 billion light years away…
Satellite Accidently Spots a Gamma-Ray Burst
Image credit: NASA NASA's RHESSI satellite may have uncovered new clues about the most powerful explosions in the Universe when…
Astronomers Find a Supernova Factory
Image credit: NRAO Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a recently exploded supernova…
Galaxy Orbiting Milky Way in the Wrong Direction
Image credit: NRAO Before this week, "Complex H" was thought to be a strange cloud of stars with an unusual…