A blazing-bright fireball that lit up the early evening sky on January 30th appears to have scattered meteorites near the…
5 Dawn Planets And A Dusk Comet In Feb. 2016 Skywatching | Video
Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter are visible just before sunrise until Feb. 20th. Earlier in the evening, Comet Catalina…
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New Pluto Imagery
Newly interpreted data from the New Horizons spacecraft tells us that Pluto has more water ice on its surface than…
Take a colorful flight over dwarf planet Ceres
A new animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA’s Dawn…
LighTrack II Portable Camera Tracking Head
Fornax Mounts announces the LighTrack II, a portable camera tracking head for nightscape astrophotography. The post LighTrack II Portable Camera…
NASA’s Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins
Missions like the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity’s view of the cosmos. The space agency announced that it is…
Best Night Sky Events of February 2016 (Stargazing Maps)
See what’s up in the night sky for February 2016, including stargazing events and the moon’s phases, in this Space.com…
Hubble finds misbehaving spiral
Despite its unassuming appearance, the edge-on spiral galaxy captured in the left half of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image…
Fungi survive Martian conditions on ISS
Antarctic fungi survives Martian conditions after being strapped on the outside of the International Space Station for 18 months. from…