Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
Till Hellas Freezes Over – See Frost and Clouds in Mars’ Largest Crater
Earth's changing weather always makes life interesting. Seeing weather on other planets through a telescope we sense a kinship between…
Hubble Captures Starbirth In A Monkey’s Head As Telescope Approaches 24 Years In Space
Billowing gas clouds and young stars feature in this February Hubble Space Telescope image, released as the telescope approaches its…
China’s Yutu Moon rover starts Lunar Day 4 Awake but Ailing
Chang’e-3/Yutu Timelapse Color Panorama This newly expanded timelapse composite view shows China’s Yutu moon rover at two positions passing by…
Virtual Star Party – March 16, 2014
Host: Fraser Cain & Scott Lewis Astronomers: David Dickinson, Gary Gonella, Mark Behrendt, Roy Salisbury, Stuart Forman (more…)
Mercury Shrinking: the First Rock from the Sun Contracted More than Once Thought
Whatever Mercury's did to trim down its waistline has worked better than anyone thought -- the innermost planet in our…
Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected?
Last week the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) stated rather nonchalantly that they will be hosting a press conference on…
New Comet Jacques May Pass 8.4 million miles from Venus this July
Congratulations to Cristovao Jacques and the SONEAR team! On March 13 they snared C/2014 E2 (Jacques) in CCD images taken with a…
Check Out NASA’s New “Dashboard” for Spacecraft Communications
How do scientists and engineers communicate with their spacecraft? All the robotic missions going to various points in our Solar…
Watch Two Dark Moons Sneak Into Cassini’s Shots
On March 11, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was acquiring some images of Saturn's back-lit limb when two of its moons decided…