Astronomy
Ready, Set, Messier Marathon: A 2014 Guide
Have YOU seen all 110? The passage of the northward equinox last week on March 20th means one thing in the…
Sirius, UFO trickster extraordinaire
Scintillating Sirius is sometimes mistaken for a UFO I've never seen a UFO that stayed a UFO. I remember certain…
Bill Nye on Taking Astronomy with Carl Sagan
"This is how we know nature. It is the best idea humans have ever come up with." – Bill Nye,…
360 Degrees of Milky Way at Your Fingertips
Touring the Milky Way's a blast with this brand new 360-degree interactive panorama. More than 2 million infrared photos taken…
Happy Equinox! – A Perfect Time to See the Zodiacal Light
Welcome to the first day of spring! If you have a clear night between now and April 1, celebrate the…
Twin NASA Probes Find “Zebra Stripes” in Earth’s Radiation Belt
Earth's inner radiation belt displays a curiously zebra-esque striped pattern, according to the latest findings from NASA's twin Van Allen…
How Does Life Recover from Mass Extinctions?
Every few dozen million years there's a devastating event on Earth that kills nearly all the living creatures on our…
Clouds May Scotch Tomorrow’s Rare Erigone-Regulus Occultation
North America's brightest predicted asteroid occultation may be one-upped by a much bigger occultation - a solid blanket of clouds.…
Zoom to the Moon’s North Pole with this Incredible New Gigapixel Map
OMG - breathtaking! That was my reaction when I clicked on this incredible new interactive map of the moon's north…
First Microlensing Detection of a Planet Circling a Brown Dwarf Candidate
When astronomers detect new exoplanets they typically do so using one of two techniques. First, there's the famous transit technique,…