Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It will be busy skies this week as the Moon goes through a series of occultations for…
Hacking sounds crass. It manifests images of short cuts, jobs poorly done and people most interested in just finishing, no…
The Japanese space agency JAXA announced the successful launch of the ASTRO-E2 X-ray satellite on Sunday. A Japanese-built M-5 rocket…
One of the instruments tuned into Deep Impact is NASA's Swift satellite, normally designed to detect and analyze gamma ray…
Of the 130 extrasolar planets discovered to date, most have been found using the radial velocity method, where a planet…
There's a new rumour going around the Internet. Maybe an excited friend has sent an email about a once in…
A new study by NASA and the Naval Research Institute has found that exhaust from the space shuttle can create…
Charles Bell demonstrates that amateur astronomers can photograph Pluto with their backyard telescopes. Charles used a 12" Meade 200LX-GPS with…
An international team of astronomers have discovered a strange source of high energy gamma rays. The object is called LS5039,…
NASA has taken detailed measurements of global sea levels, and confirmed that they're rising. Not only that, the rate is…