Until 9 p.m. Pacific Standard time tonight you can play a part in naming NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover. Last year, more than 28,000 essays were submitted in the naming contest by students. After a...
The great thing about meteor showers is that you really don’t have to know a thing about astronomy to enjoy them. Whether you want to plan a romantic date night or a fun family night out...
Only three days after he began his internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, 17-year-old Wolf Cukier discovered a planet. If that’s not reaching for the...
If you’ll be in the Eastern Hemisphere on Boxing Day, you’re in luck: the last solar eclipse of the 2010’s will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. Unfortunately for stargazers in the US, the eclipse won’t...
When it comes to searching for life on other planets, researchers have quite the task before them. After all, we only know of one planet that bears life: our own big blue marble in space. When an exobiolgist is looking...
The boogeyman of the cosmos is the undetectable, inescapable death of all information: the black hole. Nearly everyone has heard of the naturally occurring phenomenon, but not everyone is familiar with the details of...
If you’re an avid stargazer, you’re certainly interested in the mythology that surrounds the stars above. After all, for ancient civilizations, stargazing was as much a fun pastime as a way to remember myths and legends...
October 8 marks the peak of the activity of the Draconids Meteor Shower. Debris dropped by Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner began falling into the atmosphere on October 6, and the activity will continue to be visible in the...
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