Watch A Mountaintop Blow Up Live For Astronomy Tomorrow
While we space geeks are lucky enough to watch rocket launches regularly, it's not often we get to see a…
Stunning Amateur Timelapse of Jupiter ‘Re-enacts’ Voyager Flyby
Back in the 1970's when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, I remember being…
Where To Go After Pluto? Hubble Seeks The Next Target For New Horizons
It's going to be a really busy summer for the New Horizons team. While they're checking out the newly awakened…
Pale White Dot: Saturn’s Moon Atlas Shines Between Gas Giant’s Rings
See that small pixel? That's an entire moon you're looking at! Peeking between the rings of Saturn is the tiny…
Asteroid-Turned-Comet 2013 UQ4 Catalina Brightens: How to See it This Summer
Though ISON may have fizzled in early 2014, we’ve certainly had a bevy of binocular comets to track this year.…
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Opportunity Peers Out from ‘Pillinger Point’ – Honoring British Beagle 2 Mars Scientist Where Ancient Water Flowed
NASA’s decade old Opportunity rover has reached a long sought after region of aluminum-rich clay mineral outcrops at a new…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 349: Mercury 7 – How the US picked the First Astronauts
Before the Apollo Program, there was the Gemini Program, and before Gemini came the Mercury Program. 7 elite astronauts chosen…
Watch the Rise and Fall of a Towering Inferno on the Sun
Caught on camera by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a prominence blazes hundreds of thousands of miles out from the Sun's surface (i.e.,…
Gaia Space Telescope Team Battles ‘Stray Light’ Problems At Start Of Mission
Europe's powerful Milky Way mapper is facing some problems as controllers ready the Gaia telescope for operations. It turns out…
How Much of the Universe is Black Holes?
We all fear black holes, but how many of them are there out there, really? Between the stellar mass black…