Martian Rivers and Lakes Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Giant cracks that crisscross to form polygons have been imaged on the floors of hundreds of Martian impact craters by NASA's...
Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Recently, the world's largest telescopes have been aimed towards Jupiter. The reason: observing a new, unexplained expanding...
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 10:29:23 - Anuradha Menon
Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...
In the hit 1998 movie Armageddon, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck blew up an asteroid to save the world. While the film was science fiction, the chances...
An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially...
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 - 10:10:31 - Ehud Rattner
Most asteroids with moonlets started off as solitary bodies that split in two while sunbathing, new computer simulations suggest. Once thought to be...
Asteroid to Hit Mars? Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 - Roni Barr This past November, the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona discovered an asteroid receding from the Earth...
