Transits
Perseverance Sees Phobos, Deimos and Mercury Passing in Front of the Sun
NASA's Perseverance rover is busy exploring the Martian surface and collecting samples for eventual return to Earth. But the rover…
Exomoons Defy Discovery
For a long time, we wondered if other stars hosted planets like the Sun does. Finally, in the 1990s, we…
Maybe There’s No Way to Tell if Habitable Planets Orbit Proxima Centauri… Yet!
In a new study, a team of astronomers come to the conclusion that Proxima b will ever be detected making…
TESS Finds a Planet That Orbits Two Stars
Researchers working with data from NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) have a found a planet that orbits two stars.…
Don’t Want Aliens Dropping By? Engage Laser Cloaking Device
Powerful arrays of lasers could hide our presence from the prying eyes of aliens.
250 Years of Planetary Detection in 60 Seconds
Early astronomers realized some of the "stars" in the sky were planets in our Solar System, and really, only then…
Clouds part for Transit of Venus from Princeton University
[/caption] Despite a horrendous weather forecast, the clouds parted - at least partially - just in the nick of time…
Thierry Legault’s Incredible Ground-Based Views of Endeavour’s Final Flight
[/caption] Award-winning French astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled through Germany, France and Spain during Endeavour's final mission to find clear skies…