Ray Sanders
App Review: Earth or Not Earth
The folks at Cosmoquest have released a cool new citizen science app for Android! "Earth or Not Earth" allows players…
Book Review: ‘Five Billion Years of Solitude’ by Lee Billings
Over the past few years, the field of astrobiology has made great strides. With missions such as Kepler making exoplanet…
Stunning Astrophoto: The Milky Way Over Death Valley
High School Physics teacher and photographer Jeff Moreau took this incredible photo of the Milky Way over Death Valley. Jeff…
Join the Golden Spike Video Contest
If you've been following Golden Spike Company, you know that the company is planning to launch commercial Lunar exploration missions…
New Online Astronomy Course from CosmoQuest
For those of you who'd like to brush up on your Astronomy knowledge, or never took Astronomy 102, CosmoQuest has…
Gamma-ray Outbursts Shed New Light on Pulsars
Researchers using the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have developed a new method to detect a…
Help Astronomers Collect Venus Transit Data!
[/caption]During June 5th/6th 2012, Venus will be transiting the Sun, where it will make a rare appearance as a small…
Can “Warp Speed” Planets Zoom Through Interstellar Space?
[/caption]Nearly ten years ago, astronomers were stunned to discover a star that had been apparently flung from its own system…
Solving the Puzzle of Apollo 12’s Mysterious Magnetic Moon Rocks
[/caption] Ever since their discovery by the Apollo 12 crew, scientists have been puzzled by strongly magnetized rocks found on…
Hubble Spots Mysterious Dark Matter ‘Core’
[/caption]Astronomers are left scratching their heads over a new observation of a "clump" of dark matter apparently left behind after…