Keeping an Earthly Eye on Io’s Insane Volcanic Activity
Although space missions Voyager and Galileo observed evidence of volcanic activity on Io, it was a faint blue plume at…
Book Review: Information, Communication and Space Technology
I was worried that the book “Information, Communication and Space Technology” had the potential to be 'jack of all trades,…
Next Door Neighbors? Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in Nearest Star System to Us
Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B. Credit: ESO Astronomers have discovered an enticing new planet that could…
New Horizons May Need to ‘Bail Out’ to Dodge Debris, Rings and Moons in the Pluto System
Artist's concept shows the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moon, Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Since…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: October 15-21, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Whoops! (she blushes) I got so lost this weekend in researching Comet ISON that I almost forgot…
Hubble Studies Dark Matter Filament in 3-D
Hubble’s view of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. The large field of view is a combination of 18 separate Hubble…
Space Station Reaches Warp Speed?
The International Space Station appears to go to warp speed -- a la Star Trek, Star Wars and almost every…
Timeline: 15 Years of Cassini
The Cassini spacecraft takes an angled view toward Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on…
Carnival of Space #271
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brie Allen at the Tranquility Base blog. This is Brie's first time…
Extreme Solar Systems: Why Aren’t We Finding Other Planetary Systems Like Our Own?
Artist concept of a previous multi-planet solar system found by the Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Tim Pyle Most planetary systems found…