Engineers Able to Narrow Landing Ellipse for Curiosity Rover
[/caption] Engineers for the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover have now zeroed in to a more precise landing ellipse, now…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 11-17, 2012
[/caption] Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! You can breathe now... the Venus Transit is over and we're back to the mundane astronomical…
Lightning From Space!
[/caption] Here's an amazing shot of a flash of lightning within storm clouds over west Africa, captured from orbit by…
Upcoming First Human Mission to Chinese Space Station May Include Female Taikonaut
[/caption] The Chinese government has announced they will launch three taikonauts sometime in mid-June 2012, on the first manned mission…
Transit of Venus Redux: More Great Images
[/caption] Images and video from the Transit of Venus on June 5/6, 2012 are still pouring in, and we needed…
Carnival of Space #253
[/caption] This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang over his Next Big Future blog. Click here to…
Clouds part for Transit of Venus from Princeton University
[/caption] Despite a horrendous weather forecast, the clouds parted - at least partially - just in the nick of time…
There’s a Hole in the Sky!
[/caption] Well, not the sky exactly, but definitely in the clouds! This image, acquired by NASA's Aqua satellite on June 5,…
Astrophoto: Double Crepuscular Rays
[/caption] I'm not sure how often this happens, but I've never seen it before: crepuscular rays on both the west…
On the Edge of Titan
[/caption] Here's a quick look at one of my favorite cosmic photo subjects - the varying layers of atmosphere that…