Astronaut Captures Incredible Images of Australian Bush Fires
Intense wild fires, or bush fires as they are called in Australia, are burning out of control across southeast Australia…
4 Cool Views of the Hot, Loopy, Spotty Sun
A few sunspots are now 'peppering" the surface of our Sun -- Spaceweather.com lists about 12 different sunspot groups today.…
New Movie of a Neutron Star Looks Eerily Like the Phantom of the Opera
This incredible new movie of the Vela pulsar has the unnerving appearance of the Phantom of the Opera – wearing…
Curiosity Tidies Up a Bit on Mars
It’s a bit dusty on Mars, and so the Curiosity rover has now cleaned up a little spot. For the…
Exciting Potential for Habitable ExoMoons
Imagine moons like Europa or Enceladus that are orbiting distant gas giant exoplanets located in the habitable zone of their…
Kepler Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanet Candidates
Artist's depiction of the Kepler 10 system, which contains planets 2.2 and 1.4 times the size of Earth. (NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech) Kepler…
Nearly All Sun-Like Stars Have Planetary Systems
The latest analysis of data from the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft reveals that almost all stars have planets, and about 17…
Catching Sunlight: A TEDx Talk by DIY Solar Photographer Alan Friedman
Video poster frame shows Alan Friedman's 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope setup -- nicknamed "Little Big Man" -- on an Astro-Physics…
Stunning View from Orbit: Dramatic Volcanoes at Dawn
A stunning view from orbit! Astronaut Chris Hadfield captured this shot of the volcanoes of Kamchatka in Russia. “Volcanoes look…
Flying, Rolling Robot Might Make a Great Titan Explorer
The HyTAQ (Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor) robot developed at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Ever since the Huygens probe…