Looking Up

Sark Becomes World’s First Dark Sky Island (A Good Place for Looking Up…) The Channel Island of Sark has been recognized for the quality of its night sky by the International Dark-sky Association (IDA), which …[READ MORE]

NASA’s Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14. The mission will allow scientists for the first time to look for changes on a comet’s surface that occurred following …[READ MORE]

New Telescope Explores Solar System “Outback” In the outer reaches of our solar system lies a mysterious region far more remote and difficult to explore than the Australian outback. It remains the only part of …[READ MORE]

NASA Telescope Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space – Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter …[READ MORE]

Closeups of Saturn’s Moon Rhea Show Unprecedented Detail – Newly released by NASA, images of Saturn’s second largest moon Rhea obtained by the Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the …[READ MORE]

It’s Cold and Wet at The Moon’s South Pole Frozen water just inches below the Moon’s surface has been confirmed by an international team of scientists. Based on data the group obtained with an instrument …[READ MORE]

Building Blocks of Life Created in “Impossible” Place NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. “This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided,” said …[READ MORE]

Active Sun, Eclipsed Moon A massive solar storm erupted from the Sun Dec. 6, creating a huge tendril of plasma that stretched across the face of our star. The giant solar eruption created a long …[READ MORE]

Discovery of Arsenic-Based Life on Earth Could Widen Search for Extraterrestrials Astrobiology research announced by NASA Dec. 2 may change our fundamental concept of what constitutes all known life on Earth—and is causing astronomers to …[READ MORE]

Cassini Finds Warm Cracks On Enceladus – New images and data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique Saturn-lit view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. They reveal …[READ MORE]