Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860

11 years ago

“Year of meteors! Brooding year!”  -Walt Whitman July 20th is a red letter date in space history. Apollo 11, the…

Weekly Space Hangout – July 19, 2013

11 years ago

Here's our Weekly Space Hangout for July 19, 2013. Watch as a team of space and astronomy journalists discuss the…

Apollo 11 F-1 Engine Finding Confirmed by Jeff Bezos on Eve of 1st Human Moonwalk

11 years ago

In a fitting testament to NASA’s momentous Apollo Moon Landing Program, NASA and billionaire Jeff Bezos confirmed today (July 19)…

Military Aurora Research Website Goes Dark As HAARP Facility Enters Contract Negotiations

11 years ago

A military program to investigate auroras in the north appears to have been suspended. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research…

Waltz Around Saturn With This Beautiful Animation

11 years ago

In honor of this today's Wave at Saturn and The Day the Earth Smiled events, celebrating images to be taken of Earth…

What Killed the Dinosaurs?

11 years ago

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for 135 million years. Filling every ecological niche, from the oceans, forests and plains; even the…

You Can Now PhotoBomb Spacecraft Images of Earth Not Once, But Twice This Weekend

11 years ago

You’ve hopefully heard about the chance to have your picture taken this Friday – along with the rest of humanity…

What’s Going To Happen With the NASA Budget?

11 years ago

  As NASA's fiscal 2014 budget proceeds through Congress, it's still quite the ping-pong ball match to try to figure…

Incredible Astrophoto: The Milky Way and Mt. Fuji as a ‘Galactic Volcano’

11 years ago

It is a Japanese tradition to climb Mt. Fuji at night to be able to watch sunrise from the peak…