Moon Dance: Curiosity Rover Captures Movie of Phobos and Deimos Together
Sol 351 for the Curiosity rover on Mars was a marvelous night for a moon dance. The Mars Science Laboratory…
Hobbled Kepler Space Telescope Now On The Hunt For A New Mission
It's unclear how the Kepler space telescope's science operations will continue, if at all, as NASA weighs what to do…
Hubble Looks Back In Time To See Shape Of Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago
What we’re gonna’ do here is go back. Way back into time. Back to when the only thing that existed…
IAU Revises Their Stance on Public Involvement in Naming of Exoplanets and Moons
The International Astronomical Union issued a statement on August 14, 2013 that they have changed their official stance on two…
Can You Really Name a Star?
There are services which will let you name a star in the sky after a loved one. You can commemorate…
Student Science Thunders to Space from NASA Wallops
A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital rocket carrying experiments developed by university students nationwide in the RockSat-X program was successfully launched at…
Bright New Nova In Delphinus — You can See it Tonight With Binoculars
Looking around for something new to see in your binoculars or telescope tonight? How about an object whose name literally…
Satellite Watches Dust from Chelyabinsk Meteor Spread Around the Northern Hemisphere
When a meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded 22.5 km (14 miles) above Chelyabinsk, Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, the…
Two Beautiful Timelapse Videos of the 2013 Perseid Meteor Shower
We're still swooning over the great images and videos coming in from this year's Perseid Meteor Shower. Here are a…
The USAF’s ‘Space Fence’ Surveillance System: Another Victim of Sequestration
Times are getting tougher in the battle to track space debris. A key asset in the fight to follow and…