Filipp Romanov is an amateur astronomer in Russia who has discovered 4 asteroids. He proposed naming…
Category: Earth Sky
New Horizons measures the darkness of deep space
New Horizons, the mission that swept past Pluto in 2015 and then into the deep outer…
New SETI search goes beyond our Milky Way
View larger. | The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. SETI astronomers used it for…
Did black holes make early galaxies blaze really bright?
When you look at this image, you’re seeing some early galaxies in the very young universe.…
Measuring the speed of winds on Mars using sound
Researchers Robert White (left), Ian Neeson (center) and Don Banfield (right) in the Mars Simulation Wind…
Ancient Mars lake was larger than any on Earth
View larger/full image. | This color-coded topographic map from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows part of…
Polaris, the North Star, has spots on its surface
Here’s a false color image from CHARA Array of Polaris – the North Star – from…
Our 1st and last visit to Neptune
Voyager 2 acquired this image fewer than 5 days before its closest approach to Neptune on…
Mars mission to send Blue and Gold satellites to Red Planet
An artist’s concept shows Blue and Gold, the twin satellites launching as soon as October 2024…
Moon and Saturn close together this week. See the images!
On August 20, 2024, for all of us around the globe, the moon was up by…