Moon

NASA Marching Towards Milestone Test Firing of Space Launch System Booster

The first solid rocket booster qualification motor for NASA’s mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is aimed and ready…

10 years ago

See a Rare Comet-Moon Conjunction Tonight

I want to alert you to a rather unusual event occurring this evening. Many of you already know about the triple…

10 years ago

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,…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

Surprise! Asteroid Crashes And Raindrop Splashes Look Almost Alike

It's hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you'd need to be looking at the right spot…

10 years ago

Cool Video: Space Station Flies in Front of the Moon

This has been on my bucket list for a while, but I've never had the opportunity to witness it myself:…

10 years ago

Half-Moon Makes Dramatic Pass at Uranus Tonight

Sunlight. Moonlight. Starlight. I saw all three for the first time in weeks yesterday. Filled with photons, I feel lighter today,…

10 years ago

Station Astronauts Send Christmas Greetings from the International Space Station

ISS astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA and Terry Virts, NASA send Christmas 2014 greetings from the space…

10 years ago

Universe Today’s Top 10 Space Stories of 2014

It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or…

10 years ago