Astrophysicist Laurance Doyle wants to get the world discovering worlds--and in the process get children jazzed about science and math.
Doyle and his team at non-profit PlanetQuest have developed software to harness the computing power of millions of users computers and help people d...
A Japanese artist, Kagaya, is a painter of unusual astronomical space art…
Night sky as seen by a mother and child:
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Surprise Ultraviolet Light Show
It was a day like any other for a nearby star named GJ 3685A - until it suddenly exploded with light.
At 2 p.m. Pacific time on April 24, 2004, the detectors on the Galaxy Evolution Explorer ultraviolet space telescope nearl...
On its 449th Martian day, or sol (April 29, 2005), the Mars rover Opportunity woke up approximately an hour after sunset and took this picture of the fading twilight as the stars began to come out.
Set against the fading red glow of the sky, the pale dot near the centre of the picture is not a sta...
Fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's work still provides new tools for understanding our universe. An international team of astronomers has now used a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein in 1936, called gravitational lensing, to determine the shape of stars. This phenomenon, due t...
The Spitzer Space Telescope executed its first-ever High Impact Target of Opportunity (ToO) observation in order to catch a look at the aftermath of one of the most violent explosions in the universe.
The ToO program was designed as a means to interrupt Spitzer's normal observation sche...
An asteroid, currently located between Mars and Jupiter, has been named after 18-year old Mumbaikar Bhushan Mahadik.
The asteroid was christened after him by the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, US.
The laboratory named the asteroid after...
The Chinese Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence revealed that China would launch the first "seed satellite" specially designed for seed-breeding in space.
The "seed satellite" project has been approved and development work is under way.
The "seed...
Physicists now have found a way to manipulate the spin of an electron with a jolt of voltage from a battery.
In a new study, Richard Warburton, a physicist with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, applied voltage to an electron in a quantum dot (which is a tiny, nanometre-sized semi...
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Sat 28 May 05 04:07:28 UT
The BAT instrument aboard the Swift spacecraft located a possible Gamma ray burst (GRB 050528)
“The Liverpool Telescope reacted to the SWIFT trigger 130679. The automatic detection mode resulted in a non-detection. We remind that our... >
On Tuesday morning, May 31st. Mars and the fat crescent Moon are going to have a pleasing close encounter in the dawn sky. Look for them rising in the east around 4:30 AM
Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter.
Mars is already eye...
The Prospector 6 (P6) test vehicle was successfully launched from a Mojave, California test site. Recovery of the low-cost rocket took place on May 21st
A joint industry/academic team is hoping to develop a low-cost Nanosat Launch Vehicle that can deliver small (10 kg) payloads into low Earth or...
