Astronomy
Rosetta’s Cloudy Comet Shroud Spotted From The Ground, While Spacecraft Picks Up Dust Grains
This picture shows it is possible to look at Rosetta's comet from Earth, but what a lot of work it…
MAVEN Mars Orbiter Ideally Poised to Uniquely Map Comet Siding Spring Composition – Exclusive Interview with Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky
MAVEN to conduct up close observations of Comet Siding Spring during Oct. 2014 MAVEN is NASA’s next Mars Orbiter and…
Second Possible Proto-Planet Found In System Pretty Close To Earth
Astronomers have found what they believe is a second protoplanet around HD100546, a youngster star that may also host a…
A New Marker Might Better Track the Solar Cycle
Approximately every 11 years the Sun becomes violently active, putting on a show of magnetic activity for aurora watchers and…
One Planet, Two Stars: A System More Common Than Previously Thought
There are few environments more hostile than a planet circling two stars. Powerful tidal forces from the stars can easily…
Get Ready for Sunday’s Close Flyby of Asteroid 2014 RC
Guess who's dropping by for a quick visit this weekend? On Sunday, a 60-foot-wide (20-meters) asteroid named 2014 RC will…
Meet Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster
Our cosmic address extends well beyond Earth, past the Milky Way and toward the farthest reaches of the universe. But…
Get Set for the Super (or Do You Say Harvest?) Full Moon 3 of 3 for 2014
Time to dust off those ‘what is a perigee Full Moon’ explainer posts… the supermoon once again cometh this weekend…
Amazing Video Timelapse Of Big Telescopes At Work In Chile
What's it like to spend a night at a huge telescope observatory? Jordi Busque recorded a brilliant timelapse of the…
Hunting for “Minimoons” Orbiting Earth
It’s an engaging thought experiment. What if Earth had multiple moons? Our world has one large natural satellite, just over…