New Android App Makes it Easier to Use Your Phone While Stargazing
Ever have to take a call while stargazing, or do you use astronomical apps on your phone, only to have…
Another Exoplanet Hunting Mission Ends: CoRoT Spacecraft Can’t be Recovered
More bad news on the exoplanet-hunting front: While the final fate of the Kepler spacecraft remains unknown, the CoRoT (Convection,…
Discovery! More Planets Found Orbiting In A Star Cluster
As Earthlings, we're so used to thinking about planets being in simple orbits around a single star. But the Sun…
Astrophoto: Curtain of Crepuscular Rays at Dawn
Prolific astrophotographer and Australian astronomer Joseph Brimacombe captured this beautiful wide-field view of crepuscular rays from the Sun last week.…
China’s Shenzhou-10 Crew Returns to Earth
China successfully completed its longest human space mission as the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and its crew of two men and one…
Podcast: Equilibrium in Space
So many of the forces in space depend on equilibrium, that point where forces perfectly balance out. It defines the…
Podcast: Death of a Spacecraft
In the end, everything dies, even plucky space robots. Today we examine the last days of a series of missions.…
Carnival of Space #307
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureux at the Links Through Space blog. Click here to read…
Gesundheit! Hairy And Sneeze-worthy Rings Snare Summer Sun
For the past two weeks puffy clumps of seeds have been riding the air in my town. You can't avoid…
Astronomers Spy Early Galaxies Caught In A Cosmic Spiderweb
Once upon a time, when the Universe was just about three billion years old, galaxies started to form. Now astronomers…