NEUTRON STAR EXPLOSION

A neutron star halfway across the Milky Way galaxy is ready for its close-up. A rare…

OSIRIS Provides Ozone Measurement

The Canadian Space Agency is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch and activation of OSIRIS…

DARK ENERGY RESEARCH

The good news from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is Einstein was right — maybe. A strange…

PROJECTS TO ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY

NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research recently selected 22 researchers to receive grants of up…

Desert markings imaged from orbit

Visible from ESA’s Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many…

MARS ON EARTH

Spirit and Opportunity, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, are global hits: specifically, they’re 6.53 billion hits, more…

COSMIC MOBY DICK

Like the massive white whale in Herman Melville’s 1851 classic “Moby Dick,” comets have long been…

GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE

Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles…

SORCE SATELLITE CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ON ORBIT

Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has…

GIANT BLACK HOLE RIPS APART STAR

Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black…