Jason Major
Surprise – Mars Has Auroras Too!
Just a day after skywatchers at mid- to upper-latitudes around the world were treated to a particularly energetic display of auroras…
This Is The Asteroid That Didn’t Hit Us
All right, sure – there are a lot of asteroids that don't hit us. And of course quite a few…
If You Could See in Radio These Are the Crazy Shapes You’d See in the Sky
Even though it's said that the average human eye can discern from seven to ten million different values and hues of…
Watch the Aurora Shimmer and Dance in Real Time
I for one have never witnessed the northern lights in person, and like many people I experience them vicariously through…
New Horizons Now Close Enough to See Pluto’s Smaller Moons
Now on the final leg of its journey to distant Pluto the New Horizons spacecraft has been able to spot…
The First Images Are In from Rosetta’s Valentine’s Day Comet Flyby
On Saturday, Feb. 14, the Rosetta spacecraft swooped low over the surface of comet 67P/C-G in the first dedicated close pass…
Rosetta’s Comet Really “Blows Up” in Latest Images
First off: no, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is not about to explode or disintegrate. But as it steadily gets nearer to the Sun the…
Rare Images of Red Sprites Captured at ESO
At the ESO's observatories located high in the Atacama Desert of Chile, amazing images of distant objects in the Universe are…
Moroccan Meteorite May Be a 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of Dark Martian Crust
Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet. But its signature color is only skin-deep – or, I should say,…
Dawn Captures Best Images Ever of “Hipster Planet” Ceres
This is the second animation from Dawn this year showing Ceres rotating, and at 43 pixels across the images are officially the…