Astronomy
Catch Mercury Brushing Past Venus in a Spectacular Dusk ‘Quasi-Conjunction’ This Week
Missing Venus? The third brightest natural object in the heavens returns to prime time dusk skies in 2015 after being…
New Simulation Models Galaxies Like Never Before
Astronomy is, by definition, intangible. Traditional laboratory-style experiments that utilize variables and control groups are of little use to the scientists who…
How Did We Find the Distance to the Sun?
How far is the Sun? It seems as if one could hardly ask a more straightforward question. Yet this very…
Finding Lovejoy: How to Follow the Path of Comet 2014 Q2 Through January
Have you seen the amazing pics? A bright comet graces evening skies this month, assuring that 2015 is already on…
Rogue Star HIP 85605 on Collision Course with our Solar System, but Earthlings Need Not Worry
It's known as HIP 85605, one of two stars that make up a binary in the Hercules constellation roughly 16…
2015 Expected to be a Record-Breaking Year for Soyuz-2 Workhorse
2014 was a banner year for the Russian Space Agency, with a record-setting fourteen launches of the next generation unmanned…
Will You Float Away on Jan. 4th? Nope!
When I first heard we were all going to float in the air at 9:47 a.m. PST on January 4th,…
Moonlight Is a Many-Splendored Thing
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" goes the song. But the color and appearance of the Moon depends upon the particular set…
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10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015
A new Avengers movie. A reboot of the Star Wars franchise. The final installment of the Hunger Games. The Martian…
End the Year with a Bang! See a Bright Supernova in Virgo
A 14th magnitude supernova discovered in the spiral galaxy NGC 4666 earlier this month has recently brightened to 11th magnitude, making…