Watch it Rain on the Sun
The big solar flare and coronal mass ejection earlier this week created an unusual event on the Sun: it rained.…
Grab a seat for the Celestial Lights show!
Painstakingly assembled from over 150,000 digital photos taken over the course of eight months, this stunning time-lapse video of aurora-filled…
Get Great Astronomy Apps and Support Astronomers Without Borders
[/caption] Celebrate the last two weeks of Global Astronomy Month and get a great price on the very popular SkySafari…
JUICE to Jupiter Could Be ESA’s Next Major Science Mission
[/caption] The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next major space mission for ESA…
The Case of the Missing Dark Matter
[/caption] A survey of the galactic region around our solar system by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has turned up…
How to Capture a Dragon in Space
[/caption] With the upcoming historic launch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, astronauts in orbit have…
Is This The Last Image From Envisat?
[/caption] The European Space Agency's venerable Envisat satellite may have sent back its final image, according to recent news from…
Discovery Does Dulles & DC
[/caption] Space Shuttle Discovery took off from Florida on her final mission today atop a modified Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet,…
Shuttle Discovery Flies Over Washington D.C. to New Home
[/caption] Space Shuttle Discovery, atop its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, NASA 905, flew over the US national capital region on April…
Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars
[/caption] As crazy as it sounds, free-floating rogue planets have been predicted to exist for quite some time and just…