Solar System Antiquities Abound in Saturn’s Rings
Anyone looking for miscellanies from the early days of the Solar System can likely find them all in one place:…
Astrophoto: Beautiful New Look at the Orion Nebula
The enormous cloud of dust and gas that makes up the Orion Nebula is featured in this beautiful astrophoto. This…
New Crater Names Approved for Mercury’s South Pole & More
Move over, Tolkien & Tryggvadóttir. Yesterday, an announcement was made that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved proposed names for nine…
Chris Hadfield’s Top 5 Videos from Space
Chris Hadfield -- the ever-tweeting, always charming Canadian running the space station these days -- has had an eventful few…
New Stars: Blazing and Blue
A new image from ESO shows a pretty sprinkling of bright blue stars, the star cluster NGC 2547, a group…
Book Review: Vistas of Many Worlds
While many astronomy books are based around images that show us how the Universe appears to us right now, as…
Gallery: Dragon Splashes Down Successfully
Splashdown! The SpaceX Dragon has returned home safely, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 16:36 UTC (12:36 p.m. EDT)…
New Kind of “Runt” Supernovae Could be Lurking Unseen
Imagine this "Death from the Skies" scenario; a tiny supernova lurks unseen near our Sun. Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…
Carnival of Space #294
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by our pal Ray Sanders at his Dear Astronomer website! Click here to…
Win a Copy of “Your Ticket to the Universe”
A beautiful new book, “Your Ticket to the Universe: A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos" highlights some of the most…