Space / Telescopes

The Space Race For the New Millennium

Despite funding concerns, NASA has big plans for moon exploration. 04.23.2008

Inside the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

It starts with water and ends with intelligent aliens—hopefully. 12.25.2007

Good Astronomy at Bad Astronomy

A blog that takes no prisoners in its search for cosmic truth 12.11.2007

Scientist of the Year: David Charbonneau

His research heats up the search for alien life—and finds some amazing planets along the way. 12.06.2007

Fat times for Planet Hunters

New-found worlds are becoming bigger, hotter, and stranger. 11.27.2007

The Ice-Cream Scoop Taken Out of the Universe

A patch of the heavens that contains far more nothingness than the rest of space 11.21.2007

Quasars Say Earth Is 1/2 a Pinkie Smaller

We now know the planet is quite mushy—but at least we know. 10.12.2007

Map: Alien Weather Report

A planet with supersonic winds, where a day lasts a year 07.16.2007

20 Things You Didn’t Know About... Galileo

Einstein's favorite scientist died an ardent Catholic. 07.02.2007

One Spectacular Stellar Death

The biggest recent supernova revealed how stars live and die. 05.22.2007

The Birth of Dark Energy

A dark force that is pulling the cosmos apart 04.16.2007

The Hunt for Other Earths Heats Up

We could hit the jackpot by 2010. 04.10.2007

Sunset over Mars

Requiem for the Mars Global Surveyor 03.14.2007

Cosmic Katrina

NASA's Cassini spacecraft eyes stormy weather at Saturn's south pole. 02.25.2007

World's Biggest Binoculars

Astronomers open a new window onto the universe. 12.10.2006

Map: X-Ray Vision Shows How a Galaxy Cluster Grows

New X-ray data unveils the dynamics of galaxy cluster Abell 3266. 09.01.2006

Map: Earth's Fourth Dimension

A gravitational rainbow points to our planet's invisible topography. 08.14.2006

Life's a Beach on Saturn's Moon

Saturn's biggest moon has giant sand-dune deserts. 08.01.2006

The Dark Side of the Sun

Scientists spot solar storms before they spin this way. 06.25.2006

NASA Turns Away From The Final Frontier

Budget cuts rein in explorers. 06.01.2006

Skylights

The cosmos brims with color, but our eyes aren't engineered to see it 04.02.2006

Sky Lights

Scientists celebrate 100 years of understanding cosmic speed limits 12.01.2005

Sky Lights

Stargazers can't fight summer's high humidity, but they can learn to love it 07.24.2005

How Nature Builds a Planet

A new space telescope tells us we really had no idea what was going on out there. 07.24.2005

Eyeing the Impact

07.19.2005

On Top of Kitt Peak

Seven thousand feet above Arizona's saguaro forests, a unique gathering of observatories probe the universe's darkest secrets 05.01.2005

Sky Lights

Even in the darkest depths of space, there's no escaping light pollution 04.28.2005

X-Ray Vision

A completely different view of ravenous black holes, exploding stars, colliding galaxies, and other wonders of the universe a human eye can't see 02.05.2005

Observer

12.03.2004

New Eye on the Sky

03.28.2004

A Field Guide to the Invisible Universe

At least 96 percent of the cosmos cannot be seen through any telescope, but what we cannot detect may hold the secret of our fate 12.06.2003

Burnout

New images from Hubble preview the death of our sun: swift, colorful, and surprisingly tempestuous 11.09.2003

Aerospace: Ed Weiler

The Hubble Telescope's Best Friend 11.09.2003

Space Scientist: Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler

The Astronomers Who Proved Carl Sagan Correct 11.09.2003

Sky Lights

The sky turns cloudy this month. But even on overcast days, there is still plenty of spectacle to see up above 11.08.2003

The Biggest Chill

05.01.2003

Astronomy

01.01.2003

The Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 11.01.2002

The Very Best Telescope

A powerful, new, and rather bizarre collection of six small telescopes atop Mount Wilson is about to change our view of the stars forever 10.01.2002

Science Travel

The narrow road up Mauna Kea leads to the deep sky 08.01.2002

Black Beauty

05.01.2002

Sky Lights

4 banishes blurry pictures from astronomers' photo albums 03.01.2002

Can We Find Another Earth?

NASA is betting that we can, and a team of Princeton astronomers has a clever design for a telescope that could do it within 20 years 03.01.2002

Sky Lights

Nature's blackest creations slowly reveal their true identities 10.01.2001

Sky Lights

Artists boldly go where no telescope has gone before 05.01.2001

Flying Pumpkins

09.01.2000

Sky Lights

Subaru Telescope/NAOJ 07.01.2000

Tuning In To Deep Space

Tuning In To Deep 2 12.01.1999

Planetary Superstars

Time to dust off those forgotten telescopes: There's finally a real spectacle up there 10.01.1999

Sky Lights

Time to dust off those forgotten telescopes: There's finally a real spectacle up there 10.01.1999

Sky Lights

Sorry, the real universe isn't that dramatic 09.01.1999

Sky Lights

Check out dusk's dazzling display of the evening star 06.01.1999

Cosmic Light Show

06.01.1999

From Here to Eternity

Get ready for a new generation of telescopes that can see forever 05.01.1999

Big City Stars

Snow and city lights can make February a sky watcher's washout. Not this year. 02.01.1999

Galaxies in Hiding

11.01.1998

New Scope

10.01.1998

Young Star

Hubble shows the violent birth of a massive star. 10.01.1998

Solar Portrait

09.01.1998

Beyond Hubble

Though our orbiting 2 Telescope is stillgiving us an unprecedented view of the heavens, within a decade or so, accumulated glitches will finally make THE HUBBLE go dark. But don't worry: NASA has a fleet of new telescopes aimed at a universe we can now only imagine. 02.01.1998

The Year in Science: Astronomy 1997

It turns out gama ray bursts are truly titanic. 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Astronomy 1997

The Pistol Star makes our own sun lookd downright puny. 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Astronomy 1997

Hubble's New Prism 01.01.1998

Beyond the Soapsuds Universe

The universe is full of patterns, but how did it get that way? 08.01.1997

Star Bright

Hubble catches sight of stars so dim it's like seeing the glow of a single cigarette on the moon. 06.01.1997

Giving Birth to Galaxies

Peering out to the edge of the universe, astronomers catch glimpses of galaxies in the making. 02.01.1997

Secrets of the Deep

01.01.1997

Staring at the Sun

01.01.1997

The Quasars' New Clothes

The more we learn, the less we seem to know about quasars. 01.01.1996

Redemption

04.01.1993

Liquid Eyes

02.01.1993

Island of Stars

10.01.1992

Watery Eyes

03.01.1992



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