Astronomy - Spring 2008

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The l...

Hydroxyl, an important but difficult-to-detect molecule, is made up of a hydrogen and oxygen atom each. It has now been ...

The skies may be the next frontier in travel, yet not even the wealthiest space tourist can zoom out to, say,...

About a century ago, the light from the explosion of a star within our galaxy swept past Earth . No one noticed. Such explos...

Chasing the green flash Solar phenomena are revealed at Paranal. Provided by European Southern Observatory ...

We know that there are massive stars out there that can be 10 to 150 times larger than the mass of the sun. These massive stars are rare but...

Roughly 160,000 light years away in the Large Megellanic Cloud is the debris of a massive star explosion that was captured by the Chandra X-...