From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth
[/caption] Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto…
Asterisms: Signposts in the Sky
[/caption] Humans have been grouping stars into patterns since the beginning of time, each culture placing its own myths and…
Fly Over Vesta’s Cratered Terrain with Dawn
I've been waiting for nearly two months to be able to share these videos from the Dawn mission's "flyover" views…
End of the World Averted: New Archeological Find Proves Mayan Calendar Doesn’t End
[/caption] So much for the world ending on December 21, 2012. We’ve been saying it for years, but a new…
Surprise! IBEX Finds No Bow ‘Shock’ Outside our Solar System
[/caption] For years, scientists have thought a bow "shock" formed ahead of our solar system’s heliosphere as it moved through…
Rogue Planets Could Drive By And Scoop Up Life
[/caption] Free-floating "rogue" planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds -- a.k.a.…
Herschel Telescope Peers into the Glow of Cygnus X
[/caption] In infrared, Cygnus-X is a glowing star nursery, and the Herschel space observatory has captured this beautiful new view…
A Call to Action: We Must Explore
Our friend Andrew Chaikin is passionate about space exploration and like many, is concerned about the budget cuts that threaten…
What Does Conan O’Brien Think About Space Exploration?
I wanted to know, so I decided to ask him. And thanks to "Team Coco" and Google Plus, I was…
M55 — Or a Swarm of Angry Bees?
[/caption] Globular clusters are my absolute favorite telescope targets. Okay, Saturn, and then globular clusters. And that's why I've absolutely…