Space

Asteroid Near-Misses Happen All Of The Time

close to Earth yesterday.  Not to worry, it happens all of the time, but because their existence was ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2010 - 2:20pm

Where Are All The Aliens?

discovery of life on Mars, Bostrom would be upset: life is not so rare after all; it just destroys itself ...

Article - Dan Gillick - May 13 2010 - 1:19pm

Water On The Moon, Where Have You Been Hiding All This Time?

and precise measurements, are changing the perception it is all dry.   As little as five years ago, no ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 12:36pm

Finally Seeing The Pluto System In All Its Glory

reviewed published work modeling Pluto suggesting that there should be such an ocean. All images courtesy ...

Article - Hontas Farmer - Jul 15 2015 - 3:19pm

AKARI Presents Detailed All-sky Map In Infrared Light

year, AKARI performed all-sky observations in six wavelength bands. More than 90 percent of the entire ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2007 - 4:08pm

I Zwicky 18 'Baby' Galaxy Not So Young After All

Observations of I Zwicky 18 at the Palomar Observatory around 40 years ago seemed to show that it was one of the youngest galaxies in the nearby Universe. The studies suggested that the galaxy had erupted with star formation billions of years after its gal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2007 - 11:16am

All Eyes Turn To NGC 2770 For A Supernova Birth

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift teles ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2008 - 1:26pm

Vega, The One Star Brightness To Rule Them All, Is A Little Older Than Thought

Vega is a summer star in the Northern Hemisphere, visible toward the west at sunset. Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and, at only 25 light years away, quite close, cosmically speaking.  Due to its brightness, Vega has been used by ast ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 12:32pm

Sorry Vulcan, Kerberos and Styx Know All The Right People

The International Astronomical Union, which declared itself the arbiter of names for the entire universe, is in hot water with "Star Trek" fans. A social media campaign, including endorsements by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, put Vulcan at t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2013 - 7:06pm

Why Did All Those Stars Disappear?

In a new ESO image of LDN 483 and its surroundings, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent), some of the stars are missing. But it's not a portent of doom, it's space pollution- gas and dust are obscuring ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 2:45pm