Is There Really a Planet X?
Have you heard there’s a giant planet in the Solar System headed straight towards Earth? At some point in the…
Carnival of Space #319
Another week, another Carnival of Space! This week's CoS is hosted by our pay Ray Sanders at his "Dear Astronomer"…
Cometary Collisions Could Have Created Life On Earth
The energy of comets smashing into Earth billions of years ago could have generated life out of the building blocks…
A Capella String Theory: Bohemian Gravity (Video)
There's not much to say except you MUST watch this. Incredible. Here is Tim Blais' master's thesis: A New Quantization…
Planet Evaporates Due to Stellar Flare
Solar flares – huge eruptions of charged particles from the Sun – present little threat to Earth. On a few…
A “Mini Jet” Juts from Saturn’s F Ring
We all know that Saturn's moon Enceladus has a whole arsenal of geysers jetting a constant spray of ice out…
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How to See the Historic Antares/Cygnus Launch to Space Station on Sept. 18
Top of the Rock - New York City Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft approximate launch trajectory view as should…
Astrophoto: Full Solar Halo and a Dragonfly
A beautiful atmospheric effect wasn’t the only thing hovering above John Chumack’s observatory dome this weekend. A dragonfly flits over…
Best Custom Road Signs Ever at Wallops Island Launch Pad
These custom road signs at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility are, well, out of this world with awesomeness. They refer to…
Endings and Beginnings – Magnetic Jets Shape Stellar Transformation
The incredible visual appearance of planetary nebulae are some of the most studied and observed of deep space objects. However,…