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Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Welcome to a land of all sight and no sound… A land where shadow meets substance. Welcome…

We’re all familiar with the idea of solar sails to explore the Solar System, using the light pressure from the…

Nearly all of the extrasolar planets discovered so far have been huge, Jupiter-sized and above. The question is: could smaller,…

Astronomers have been predicting the meetup for months; Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and its newly formed “Red Spot Jr.” were…

New data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are giving astronomers a sense of how protoplanetary disks might act as a…

A team of astronomers recently used Arizona’s Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to peer 4 billion years…

In this week’s question show, Fraser explains why James Webb can’t be repaired if anything goes wrong, why we even…

NASA today announced the astronaut assignments for the upcoming STS-122 space shuttle mission, tentatively scheduled for October 2007. The commander…

There’s a supermassive black hole at the center of almost every galaxy in the Universe. How did they get there?…

New radar images of Titan show surprisingly familiar terrain on Saturn’s largest moon. The radar images show a strip 4,500…