The essay that follows is a much expanded version of a brief post that ran here last April, the idea … More

The Moon, thought to have been created by the collision of a Mars-sized body with the Earth, began as a … More

At first people thought this was a meteor breaking up in the skies of Las Vegas Nevada when it was … More

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Stephen’s Quintet even more amazing when Herschel and Newton combine with ground based observations. Thanks ESA! Image: ESA/XMM-Newton (X-rays); ESA/Herschel/PACS, … More

Photographer Jeffrey Berkes captured this stunning moment as the moon entered full eclipse right when Old Faithful erupted at Yellowstone … More

Christmas imagery and stories frequently feature Santa Claus flying past a luminous full moon, but 2015 will be one of … More

In a galactic cluster far, far away, a galaxy has grown an unprecedented tail of super-heated gases, providing astronomers with … More