Nicholos Wethington
Dusty Disk Evidence of Planetary Collision
[/caption] What astronomers had expected to be a run-of-the-mill protoplanetary disk turned out to be evidence of a much more…
Rosetta Begins Tracking Asteroid Steins for Flyby
[/caption] Since waking up in early July from a brief hibernation, the Rosetta space probe has passed yet another milestone…
X-Ray Satellite Discovers Overlooked Nova
Novae are kind of a big deal in the Universe, so you'd think that when one occurred we would notice,…
Canada to build World’s First Asteroid-hunting Satellite
Just yesterday (June 30th) was the 100-year anniversary of the Tunguska event, when a small piece of ice or rock…
Dark Matter is Denser in the Solar System
Dark matter was theorized to exist relatively recently, and we've come a long way in understanding what makes up a…
Homer’s “Odyssey” May Chronicle Ancient Eclipse
It's likely that sometime in your education career, an English teacher had you enjoy (or suffer through, depending on your…
Map of Milky Way Redrawn (again)
Just yesterday Fraser wrote about the Milky Way's demotion from a 4-arm spiral galaxy to a 2-arm. This isn't the…
Over 100 Explosions Observed on the Moon
In the past two and a half years, the Moon has taken a real beating. NASA astronomers have observed over…
Galaxy Zoo Gets a Makeover
In the near future, Galaxy Zoo will get a facelift. The project – which has already classified a large portion…
Galaxy Zoo Results Show that the Universe Isn’t ‘Lopsided’
In July of last year, the doors of the online galaxy classification site Galaxy Zoo opened for business. The response?…