Planet-watchers, some exciting news: you know how we keep talking about planet candidates, those planets that have yet to be…
Did you see it? Earlier this week, we wrote about the spectacular conjunction of the planet Venus and the waning…
The latest out-of-the-box idea to help address funding shortages for researchers, scientists, educators and students goes to Mars. Uwingu has…
1st stage of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket newly equipped with landing legs and now scheduled for launch to the International…
Do you believe in free will? Are people able to decide their own destinies, whether it's on what continent they'll…
Contradicting past theories, cold gas has been found in abundance in some elliptical galaxies -- showing that there must be…
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive "holy grail" is the discovery…
She's a rainbow! You can see the first moments of a huge flare belching off the sun in the picture…
The tent is up! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog. Click…
Or, more accurately, watch the Moon pass in front of Saturn. Either way you get the same result: a beautiful…