Earth’s Shadow Nicks the Moon During This Week’s Partial Lunar Eclipse
The Moon just brushes the umbral shadow of the Earth during Tuesday night’s partial lunar eclipse.
This Binary Asteroid is Messed Up. It’s Probably Earth’s Fault
Space is big, really big! Finding new asteroids which are usually dark against the inky blackness of space is harder than looking for a needle in a cosmic haystack. Back in 1991 an astronomer discovered a kilometre wide asteroid which was subsequently found to have a smaller moon half its size. It was given the …
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The Moon Occults Spica This Weekend For North America
The ‘Great North American Occultation’ sees the Moon blot out Spica Saturday night.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory Could See Lunar and Solar ‘Exo-Eclipses’
A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations.
How Rare Are Total Solar Eclipses… Really?
As April’s ‘Great North American Eclipse’ nears, here’s a look at eclipses in time and space.
Top Astronomy Events for 2024
2024 features the final total solar eclipse for the CONUS until 2044, and much more.
Betelgeuse Versus the Asteroid… What Happened?
A rare occultation of the bright star Betelgeuse by asteroid 319 Leona turned up mixed results.
Martian Green Nightglow Seen for the First Time
The ESA’s ExoMars mission just observed nightglow in Mars’ atmosphere, a phenomenon that also happens on Earth.
An Asteroid Will Occult Betelgeuse on December 12th
I cannot for the life of me remember when it was or what it was but a fair few years ago I remember positioning a telescope to observe an asteroid as it silently and perhaps slightly eerily drifted between us and the Moon. I say eerily as this asteroid had the ability to cause widespread …
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Lucy Completes its First Flyby… and Discovers a Bonus Asteroid
NASA’s Lucy mission hits the jackpot on its very first asteroid flyby this week.