Speed Demon Asteroid Sprints Safely Past Earth Today
Earth-approaching asteroid 2014 RC ripped pass Earth today, got its orbit refashioned by our planet's gravity and now bids us adieu. I…
MAVEN Mars Orbiter Ideally Poised to Uniquely Map Comet Siding Spring Composition – Exclusive Interview with Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky
MAVEN to conduct up close observations of Comet Siding Spring during Oct. 2014 MAVEN is NASA’s next Mars Orbiter and…
Weekly Space Hangout – Sept. 5, 2014 – Summer Story Review!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Thad Szabo (@astrothad) Matthew Francis (CosmoAcademy.org, @DrMRFrancis)…
What Would It Be Like To Fall Into A Black Hole?
Let's say you happened to fall into the nearest black hole? What would you experience and see? And what would…
Second Possible Proto-Planet Found In System Pretty Close To Earth
Astronomers have found what they believe is a second protoplanet around HD100546, a youngster star that may also host a…
Space Station’s Robonaut 2 Is Getting More Astronaut-Like By The Day
NASA's large space station robot now has legs and a plan to (eventually) head outside to do spacewalks, to replace…
New Mosaic Reveals Jets Blasting from Rosetta’s Comet
Hidden among the four new images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko released by ESA this week are a pair of dusty jets…
What Comets, Parking Lots and Charcoal Have in Common
All the pictures we've seen of Rosetta's target comet 67P/C-G show it reflecting brightly against the background of outer space.…
A New Marker Might Better Track the Solar Cycle
Approximately every 11 years the Sun becomes violently active, putting on a show of magnetic activity for aurora watchers and…
Timelapse: Sprites, Gravity Waves and Airglow
Look! Fast! Sprite lightning occurs only at high altitudes above thunderstorms, only last for a thousandth of a second and…