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Scientists Track "Recent" Flood on Mars
Mars may be bone-dry today, but new observations suggests that floodwaters may have raged across its surface within the past 10 million years.
Testbed Paves Way for Amateur Space Telescope
Members of the ISS-AT (Interantional Space Station Amateur Telescope) team pose with their 'Alpha' telescope and its control computer during inaugural tests on February 2nd. From left: Richard Berry (kneeling), Tom Melsheimer, Matt Bisque, Orville Brettman, Terry Mann, Lance Martin, and Sean Sheldon.Courtesy Richard Berry. Amateur astronomers dream of someday…
A Saturn-Moon Spectacle
There will be other occultations of Saturn this year — but none with February's prime-time appeal for North American observers.
Juno Goes It Alone
Glimpsing Juno during the first half of 2002 will be a challenge.
Huge Ice Deposits Found on Mars
A NASA spacecraft has strong evidence that slabs of ice lie buried just below of huge portions of the Martian surface.
Will Leonids "Storm" for North America?
A 'meteor's-eye view' shows how Earth will be oriented for the first expected peak of the Leonid shower on November 18, 2001, at about 5 a.m. EST (2 a.m. PST). That's when dynamicists predict that Earth will encounter the most dense region of particles released by Comet Tempel-Tuttle. While the…
