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Eureka – Sun’s Twin Found There are 10 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are the same size as our sun. Therefore it should come as no surprise
What Is A Light Year? A light-year is how astronomers measure distance in space. It’s defined by how far a beam of light travels in one year – a distance
Neil Armstrong Memorabilia Pulled From Auction Sapce auctions seem to be popping up more and more and rare items, once cherished memories, are being offered up to the highest bidders. Sometimes though, ya gotta call stop! (more...)
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Extreme Weather On The Outer Planets On the gas giants at the edges of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, hurricane-like storm systems as big around as Earth blow 1000 km/h winds for years on end. Now that's strong! (more...)
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Landing Like A Car Crash. Chris Hadfield, the astronaut whose tweets, videos and pictures while on the International Space Station have helped make him a household name, has spoken about returning home. (more...)
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Ten Things You May Not Know About Space Astronomy provides a fascinating and even downright astonishing view of the universe. I have previously written on unusual or unexpected aspects of astronomy on these pages before. (more...)
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How I Got Started Into Astronomy I'm not really sure exactly how or when I first got interested in Astronomy. As far as I can recall, I've 'always' been interested in the heavens. (more...)
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The May-June 2013 Planet Dance. A remarkable series of events takes place low in the west-northwest shortly after sunset from late May. It features the tightest three-planet grouping visible without binoculars until 2026. (more...)
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Ua-Led Asteroid Mission Is A Go. OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion asteroid sample return mission led by the University of Arizona, reached a major milestone on May 16. It's a controversial mission to say the very least. (more...)
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Bright Explosion on the Moon. For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by largish meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. It just happened again! (more...)
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Kepler Planet-Finding Mission in Jeopardy. Last week, the Kepler spacecraft software detected an abnormal drift in the pointing of the observatory. As it was designed to do, the software sent the spacecraft into safe mode. (more...)
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Search For Dark Matter Starts With Tiny Bubbles. A watched pot never boils, right? Wrong. When it comes to detected dark matter, Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl and a group of physicists are using a novel approach. (more...)
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Planets In A Petri Dish Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun. (more...)
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End Of An Aussie Telescope Era Australia's only comet-hunting telescope has just detected its 100th comet. The discovery makes the Uppsala telescope at Siding Springs in outback New South Walesquite unique. (more...)
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Huge Gamma Ray Burst Caught! Are you sitting down? Wearing sunglasses? Then catch this... A record-setting burst of gamma rays ejected by a dying star in a far-flung galaxy has just blind-sided astronomers around the world. (more...)
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Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. (more...)
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Sun Unleashes 2013's Strongest Solar Flare The Sun emitted its strongest solar flare so far this year today, causing a temporary radio blackout - and a bevvy of cameras have captured it.It's gearing up to be a big solar max. (more...)
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Space-walkers Successfully Tackle Ammonia Leak at Space Station. In what may go down as one of the shortest intervals between authorizing a spacewalk and executing it to perfection,ISS astronauts prepared to do some plumbing. (more...)
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Muslims Look To Science For Start Of Ramadan PARIS - France's Muslim leaders have agreed to end almost 1,400 years of Islamic tradition and use modern astronomy to determine the start of the holy month of Ramadan. (more...)
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