“Impossible” Binary Star Systems Found
Astronomers think about half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are, unlike our Sun, part of a binary…
Fireworks from the Sun
From July 2 to July 5, the Sun shot off a whopping eighteen M-class solar flares. Most originated from Active…
Powerful “Derecho” Storms as Seen from Space
The powerful windstorms that swept across the US last week was captured by several different satellites. This type of storm,…
Latest Panoramic View from Mars Rover
What’s a Mars rover to do when there’s not enough power to rove? Take pictures. LOTS of pictures! This wonderful…
The Case of the Disappearing Dust
Astronomy has always taught us that planets form from vast clouds of dust and gas orbiting young stars. It's a…
Astrophoto: Milky Way Over Afghanistan
Here's a lovely image of the Milky Way as seen from Afghanistan -- Istalef Valley to be precise, about 20…
Wishing the Zooniverse a Happy 5th Birthday!
Galaxy Zoo was a project set up in July 2007 by astronomers Chris Lintott and Kevin Schawinski asking members of…
WISE Spies a Hunter’s Flame
A vast star-forming cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Orion shines brightly in this image from NASA's WISE…
Ping-Pong Particles: What the Higgs Does
Unless you've been hiding under a chondrite for the past week you've heard the news from CERN regarding the discovery…
Higgs-like Particle Discovered at CERN
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the discovery of what they called a “Higgs-like boson” --…