Astronomy
Comet ISON Photo Contest Winners Rock the House!
Comet ISON's gone but positively not forgotten. The National Science Foundation today shared the results of their Comet ISON Photography…
Webcasts and Forecasts for Tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse
Are you ready for some eclipse action? We’re now within 24 hours of the Moon reaching its ascending node along…
Spin! Crab Pulsar Speed Jumps Linked To Billions Of Tiny Vortices
Pulsars -- those supernova leftovers that are incredibly dense and spin very fast -- may change their speed due to…
Supernova Sweeps Away Rubbish In New Composite Image
Shining 24,000 light-years from Earth is an expanding leftover of a supernova that is doing a great cleanup job in…
Two Observing Challenges: Catch Venus Passing Neptune And Occulting a Bright Star
Have you been following the planet Venus this season? 2014 sees the brightest planet in our Earthly skies spend a…
Mars Opposition Season 2014: Images From Around the World
Did you see it? Last night, the Red Planet rose in the east as it passed opposition for 2014, and…
Why Universe Today Writes on Climate Change
Online science reporting is difficult. Never mind the incredible amount of work each story requires from interviewing scientists to meticulously…
The USAF’s Super-Secret X-37B Approaches a Milestone
A secretive mission will pass a quiet milestone at the end of this month when the U.S. Air Force’s unmanned…
Comet Jacques Brightens Rapidly, Heads North
We've got a hot comet on our hands. Comet Jacques barely cracked magnitude +11 at the time of its March 13…
The Science Behind the “Blood Moon Tetrad” and Why Lunar Eclipses Don’t Mean the End of the World
By now, you may have already heard the latest tale of gloom and doom surrounding the upcoming series of lunar…