NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Mission
NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a…
NASA Releases the 2014 “Tough Choices” Budget Proposal
NASA has released their budget proposal for 2014 and, as rumored, it includes funding for the preliminary work to begin…
Rain is Falling from Saturn’s Rings
Astronomers have known for years there was water in Saturn’s upper atmosphere, but they weren’t sure exactly where it was…
Comet PANSTARRS … Going … Going … Not Gone Yet!
It's falling out of the news but Comet PANSTARRS still lives! You can still see it in a clear sky…
New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission to launch in 2017
Move over Kepler. NASA has recently green-lighted two new missions as part of its Astrophysics Explorer Program. These come as…
Looking Into The Green Eye Of Planetary Nebula IC 1295
Located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the ESO's Very Large Telescope was busy using the…
Win a Copy of ‘Moon Hoax’
What if — somehow — historical records were changed to show the Apollo 11 mission never happened? In Moon Hoax,…
Book Review: Moon Hoax
Apollo 11, a spaceflight forever cemented in history books, signifies the moment when humans first walked on the Moon. Since…
Carbon Impacts Planetary Atmospheric Formation
It might be common, but carbon could have a huge impact in the formation and evolution of a planet's atmosphere.…
Experience a Virtual Reality Aurora
This is awesome. Astrophotographer Göran Strand took his 30 gigabytes of image data of the incredible aurora he shot on…