First-Ever High Resolution Radio Images of Supernova 1987A
On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have…
NASA Trailer Achieves Crowdfunding Goal to Run Before Star Trek: Into Darkness
Here's one bit of NASA outreach that won't be affected by suspensions or sequesters: an edited version of "We Are…
Astronomers Watch as a Black Hole Eats a Rogue Planet
In Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon narrowly escaped being devoured by an exogorth (space slug) slumbering inside an asteroid crater.…
Night Sky Preview for April 2013
Here's a quick overview from Jane Houston Jones from JPL of what you can see in the night skies during…
The Man Who Sold The Moon … And Other ‘Lunarcy’
One man claims to own the moon. Another promises to create effective lunar habitats. And yet another, a former astronaut,…
MAVEN’s Magnetometer Will Look Back in Time
The next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) will be the first spacecraft ever…
Astronaut Photos Create a Map of the World
If you could spend a few months -- or even a few days -- living aboard the ISS, what would…
Astrophoto: Jungle Sunset
They say that perspective is everything. In this case perspective and filters are what makes this such a great astrophoto!…
How to Reconstruct the Life of a Star
It takes time to understand the life of stars. A star like our Sun takes tens of millions of years…
Comet Lemmon: A Preview Guide for April
As Comet 2011 L4 PanSTARRS moves out of the inner solar system, we’ve got another comet coming into view this…