Taking Measure: A ‘New’ Most Distant Galaxy
"The farthest galaxy yet seen!" Haven't we heard that one before? (See here and here, for example.) While it's true…
Incredible Vertical-Landing Grasshopper Rocket Has Retired
Did you take a moment to look at that August video of the Grasshopper rocket deliberately going sideways and then…
Astrophoto: Seeing the Cygnus Capsule Before Its Demise
Here’s a nice photo of the trails in the sky from the International Space Station and Orbital Science’s Cygnus freighter.…
What New Horizons Sounds Like (Sort Of) When It Phones Home
Now that's a tune for a space geek's ears. This is a highly modified sound bite of ranging signals between…
Comet LINEAR Suddenly Brightens with Outburst: How to See It
It’s swiftly becoming an “all comets, all the time” sort of observing season. The cyber-ink was barely dry on our…
There Are Now Officially Over 1,000 Confirmed Exoplanets!
It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and…
Proposed Balloon Ride Would Let You See The Blackness Of Space
Doesn't that look fun? A startup company is proposing to send customers 19 miles (30 kilometers) into the air via…
Watch All Six Apollo Moon Landings at Once
So often, when we think of all the Apollo missions to the Moon, we recall the videos of the astronauts…
Astrophoto: Hubble in the Bubble
Here's a beautiful look at the Bubble Nebula, taken by astrophotographer Terry Hancock using what's known as the "Hubble Palette,"…
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, the World’s Most Prolific Time Traveler
Is time travel a fact or is it just science fiction? Thanks to time dilation and Einstein's theory of relativity,…