Ice Volcanoes Likely Alter Titan’s Surface Brightness: Study
Icy volcanoes are likely responsible for changes in brightness on the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, according…
Virtual Star Party – September 15, 2013
The Virtual Star Party will begin at 8:30pm Pacific.
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- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
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Curiosity Rolls into Intriguing ‘Darwin’ at ‘Waypoint 1’ on Long Trek to Mount Sharp
Curiosity’s views a rock outcrop at ‘Darwin’ after arriving for a short stay at ‘Waypoint 1’ on Sept 12 (Sol…
Universe Today Giveaways
Once a week or so, we try to organize a giveaway for Universe Today readers with various sponsors. Sometimes it's…
Beautiful Timelapse: Night Sky at the Shore
Need a little inspiration to go out and do some stargazing this weekend? Look no further than this gorgeous timelapse…
Weekly Space Hangout – September 13, 2013: Voyager is Out, LADEE Launches (a Frog), Asteroid 324 Bamberga
Once again, we have gathered together the forces of space journalism to report on the big news stories of the…
10 Historic Moments in Voyager’s Journey to Interstellar Space
Yesterday, NASA announced that as of August 2012, Voyager 1 is in a new frontier to humanity: interstellar space. Our…
Astro Poetry: The First Starship
Our favorite astro-poet, Stuart Atkinson, has written a wonderful ode to Voyager 1 in commemoration of the spacecraft reaching interstellar…
Why Does the Earth Spin?
In a classic episode of this video series, I did the calculations for how fast the Earth is spinning. We…
Messages To Voyager: Welcome to Interstellar Space
On the Voyager spacecraft are the famous Voyager Golden Records, which send messages from planet Earth to ... whatever or…