Looking Into the Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Craters
There are some craters on the Moon that never see the light of day. But that doesn't stop the Lunar…
Astrophoto: A Night of Two Comets
While those of us in the northern hemisphere are impatiently waiting to see Comet PANSTARRS (tonight, March 7 it should…
Kepler’s Weirdest Exoplanets
Captain Kirk has nothing on the "strange new worlds" the Kepler space telescope has found. NASA's planet-probing orbiting observatory launched…
Distant Suns Astronomy App Giveaway
Have you ever been out on a beautiful, starry night and wondered what it was you were seeing? Maybe you…
Evil Empire Beware: Gas Giant Planets are Hard to Destroy
Last year, physicists worked out the plausibility of a fully functional (if not fictional) Death Star being able to destroy…
Giant Ancient Impact Crater Confirmed in Iowa
A monster lurks under northeastern Iowa. That monster is in the form of a giant buried basin, the result of…
Rare Eclipsing Binary Stars Provide Refined Measurements in the Universe
Precise observations of a rare class of binary stars have now allowed a team of astronomers to improve the measurement…
‘First Light’ Image for Telescope on the International Space Station
As we reported in January, a new telescope was installed on the International Space Station – not to observe the…
Next Soyuz Crew Will Take 6-Hour Fast-Track to Space Station
The next Soyuz crew will be the first to try out the new abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous with the International Space…
Black Holes, Fermi Bubbles and the Milky Way
Deep at the heart of our galaxy lurks a black hole. This isn't exciting news, but neither is it a…