New Moon Mission: Chandrayaan-2 Payloads Selected
[/caption] Seven instruments will be aboard India's second unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)…
NASA Crowdsources Historic Image Archive Data
[/caption] Who doesn't love looking at old pictures, especially ones from our first steps? In this case, these pictures are…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 195: Planetary Rings
Saturn is best known for its rings. This huge and beautiful ring system is easy to spot in even the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Galactic Gravity Lab
[/caption] Many an alternative theory of gravity has been dreamt up in the bath, while waiting for a bus -…
Is There Life On Other Planets
[/caption] Is there life on other planets? That has been a question raised from the early beginnings of science fiction.…
Watch Titan Occult a Binary Star System
[/caption] Scott Kardel from the Palomar Observatory just posted something extremely cool on his Palomar Skies website. Back in 2001,…
Weird Crater on Mars is a Mystery
[/caption] This is one of the strangest looking craters ever found on Mars, and this platypus-tail-shaped depression, called Orcus Patera,…
Watch the SpaceUp Conference on SpaceVidCast
Our partner SpaceVidCast is covering the SpaceUp Unconference that is going on right now, August 27-28 in Washington DC. There…
Tonight’s the Night Mars Will NOT Look as Big as the Full Moon
[/caption] I wasn't going to write an article about the Mars-Moon Hoax this year because I thought it was too…
Contest: Win “The Universe: Our Solar System” in Blu-ray
A new giveaway opportunity! This time it is the Blu-ray edition of The Universe: Our Solar System. The Blu-ray edition…