Astronomy
Asteroid 2014 SC324 Zips By Earth Friday Afternoon – Tips on How to See it
What a roller coaster week it's been. If partial eclipses and giant sunspots aren't your thing, how about a close flyby…
Rosetta’s Comet Springs Spectacular Leaks As It Gets Closer To The Sun
Jet! The comet that the Rosetta spacecraft is visiting is shedding more dust as machine and Solar System body get…
Unusual Distributions of Organics Found in Titan’s Atmosphere
A new mystery of Titan has been uncovered by astronomers using their latest asset in the high altitude desert of…
Two Comet Groups Discovered Around Beta Pictoris
Between the years 2003 and 2011, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher - better known as HARPS - made…
X-Ray Telescope Cracks Open Archives, Comes Up With Gassy Black Hole Gem
What a gem! This huge black hole in the middle of Hercules A is making gas around it super-heated to…
How to Take Great Photographs of the October 23rd Partial Solar Eclipse and More
Get those solar viewers out… the final eclipse of 2014 occurs this Thursday on October 23rd, and most of North…
How to Safely Enjoy the October 23 Partial Solar Eclipse
2014 - a year rich in eclipses. The Moon dutifully slid into Earth's shadow in April and October gifting us with two…
Opportunity Rover Spots Comet Siding Spring from the Surface of Mars!
It looks like NASA's hard-working Opportunity Rover nabbed our very first pictures of a comet seen from another world! A…
A Compendium of Universe Today Comet Siding Spring Articles: January 2013 – October 2014
We present here a compendium of Universe Today articles on comet Siding Spring. Altogether 18 Universe Today stories and counting…
Balloon launcher Zero2Infinity Sets Its Sights to the Stars
Clearly, the sky is not the limit for balloon launcher Zero2Infinity. Based in Barcelona, Spain, the company announced this week…