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Surprise! Hot Venus has a Cold Upper Atmosphere
Venus' terminator – the transitional region between day and night -- may fuel an unusually cold region in the atmosphere.…
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T Minus 9 Days – Mars Orbiters Now in Place to Relay Critical Curiosity Landing Signals
Image Caption: NASA’s Mars Odyssey will relay near real time signals of this artist's concept depicting the moment that NASA's…
Europe’s Plans to Visit the Moon in 2018
The European Space Agency is aiming for the Moon with their Lunar Lander mission, anticipated to arrive on the lunar…
Aurora Over Antarctica: a “Teardrop From Heaven”
"We managed to snap a few photos before Heaven realised its mistake and closed its doors." – Dr. Alexander Kumar…
Pulsar Sets New Speed Record
A pulsar may have been spotted racing through space at over 6 million miles per hour (9.65 million km/h), setting…
Euclid and the Geometry of the Dark Universe
Euclid, an exciting new mission to map the geometry, distribution and evolution of dark energy and dark matter has just…
Early Black Holes were Grazers Rather than Glutonous Eaters
Black holes powering distant quasars in the early Universe grazed on patches of gas or passing galaxies rather than glutting…
Milky Way to Concordia Base… Come In, Concordia Base…
This stunning photo of the Milky Way was captured from what may be the coldest and most isolated research facility…
Lightning From Space!
[/caption] Here's an amazing shot of a flash of lightning within storm clouds over west Africa, captured from orbit by…
Tomorrow’s Transit Will be the First Photographed From Space
[/caption] ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers captured this stunning image of Earth's limb with Venus shining brightly above on the morning…