ASF 2011 Autograph Show: To Be the Shoulders of Tomorrow’s Titans

13 years ago

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Every year the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) hosts its “Astronaut Autograph Show” at Kennedy Space…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 238: Solar Activity

13 years ago

The Sun looks like a harmless burning ball of fire in the sky: warm, life-giving and forever unchanging. But we…

Giant Sunspot Turns to Face the Earth

13 years ago

[/caption] What has been billed as the largest sunspot observed in several years has now rotated around to stare straight…

Swift Satellite Captures Asteroid 2005 YU55’s Tumbling Flyby

13 years ago

If you want to photograph something in space, what better way than to have a spacecraft take the picture? The…

Rare Pallasite Meteorite Found in Missouri

13 years ago

[/caption] Meteorite hunter Karl Aston finds meteorites not by digging in the ground, but by placing ads in local newspapers.…

Was a Fifth Giant Planet Expelled from Our Solar System?

13 years ago

[/caption] Earth's place in the "Goldilocks" zone of our solar system may be the result of the expulsion of a…

The Expanding Universe – Credit To Hubble Or Lemaitre?

13 years ago

[/caption] Perhaps one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century may have gone down in the history books…

New Symphony of Science Video: Onward to the Edge

13 years ago

The latest auto-tuned musical celebration of science is out in the "Symphony of Science" series. This one features Neil deGrasse…

New NASA Mission Hunts Down Zombie Stars

13 years ago

[/caption] Neutron stars have been classed as "undead"... real zombie stars. Even though technically defunct, the neutron star continues to…

New ESA Images Reveal Volcanic History of Mars

13 years ago

[/caption] Earlier this week, The European Space Agency released new Mars images taken by instruments aboard the Mars Express spacecraft.…