Solar System

NASA Launches Revolutionary Earth Science Satellite Measuring Soil Moisture Cycle

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, is seen after the mobile…

10 years ago

Awesome New Radar Images of Asteroid 2004 BL86

New video of 2004 BL86 and its moon Newly processed images of asteroid 2004 BL86 made during its brush with Earth Monday…

10 years ago

What Asteroid 2004 BL86 and Hawaii Have in Common

At first glance, you wouldn't think Hawaii has any connection at all with asteroid 2004 BL86, the one that missed Earth by…

10 years ago

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

Latest Research Reveals a Bizarre and Vibrant Rosetta’s Comet

We've subsisted for months on morsels of information coming from ESA's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Now, a series of scientific papers in…

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

Rare Triple Transit! There’ll be 3 Moon Shadows on Jupiter on January 24th, 2015

Play the skywatching game long enough, and anything can happen. Well, nearly anything. One of the more unique clockwork events…

10 years ago