Carnival of Space #302
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by that old cheapskate, Steve Nerlich from Cheap Astronomy. Click here to read…
Oklahoma Tornado on May 20, 2013 As Seen from Space
The massive tornado that tore through parts of Oklahoma on My 20, 2013 left a 32 km (20-mile) swath of…
The Birth of a Saros – This Weekend’s Hidden Eclipse
As the first eclipse season of 2013 comes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipse occurs on the night…
Mystery of Escaping Planetary Atmospheres Comes Under Japanese Scrutiny
Venus and Mars may be all right tonight, but there's still a lot we don't understand about these planets. Why…
- Curiosity
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
- NASA
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
Curiosity Drills 2nd Hole into Ancient Mars Rocks Searching for the Ingredients of Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail…
Lovely Astrophoto: Cottonwoods and the Milky Way
Admittedly, I'm partial to Randy Halverson's night sky photography from South Dakota. Having grown up in neighboring North Dakota myself,…
How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?
The Earth turns once on its axis in a day. How fast are you actually going when you're standing on…
Gerbils, mice perish as Russian spacecraft returns to Earth
A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth -- with a few casualties for…
Astronomers Detect Dust Feature in Comet ISON’s Inner Coma
In April, when the Hubble Space Telescope looked out towards Jupiter’s orbit and observed what has been billed as the…
Weird Gravity Waves Pulse From a Tropical Cyclone
Last Monday, May 13, the Suomi NPP satellite captured a fascinating image of Tropical Cyclone Mahasen as it moved northeast…