Universe Today
Viking Experiment May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks on Mars After All
View of Mars from the Viking lander in 1976. Credit: NASA
NASA Satellites and Spacecraft Look Into the Eye of Hurricane Earl
Hurricane Earl on Sept. 2, 2010 as seen by NASA's Terra Satellite. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team
New Horizons Mission Practices Telescopic Imager on Pluto’s Twin
New Horizons image of Neptune and its largest moon, Triton. Credit: NASA
How to Crash Stars Together
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way galaxy has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be ‘alien’. Image: NASA / The Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA. Click for hi-resolution version.
The math is simple: Star + Other star = Bigger star.
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A "Monster in the Dark"
Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursts
Near Earth Asteroids Vary Widely in Composition, Origin
Supernova Spews Its Guts Across Space
The newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new look at Supernova 1987A and its famous "String of Pearls," a glowing ring 6 trillion miles in diameter encircling the supernova remnant.
Downloadable Shuttle Tribute Posters
Atlantis tribute poster. Credit: NASA
NASA has put out a collection of tribute posters to the Space Shuttle fleet that celebrates the contributions to human space flight of Columbia, Atlantis, Discovery, Challenger and Endeavour. Large versions of these posters now hang in Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Click on each image for a larger version that you can download.
Oh Canada! Hadfield Named First Canandian Commander of ISS
Hawking: God Not Needed for Universe to be Created
