Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
The summer Milky Way tilts up into the southeastern sky before dawn on April 19th from Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Dark...
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NASA’s Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
A processed view of Mars as seen by the Psyche mission on approach. The mission’s multi-spectral imager saw extensions in...
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky
Stonehenge Sanjay Nair / Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0 Every year, on the June solstice, thousands gather at Stonehenge to...
SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches
A new mission just launched to probe the interactions of the solar wind with our local space-weather environment, called the...
Moon, Planets Gather in a Twilight Spectacle May 18-20
Venus (left) and the crescent Moon appear in a gap between cirrus clouds at dusk on July 15, 2018. This...
SpaceX Booster Will Hit the Moon This August
The SpaceX Falcon 9 Stage 2 upper stageSpaceX Things are getting crowded up there, even beyond low-Earth orbit: On August...
Waiting for the Blaze Star
With galaxy season well underway, I started looking ahead to make plans for what will be rising above the horizon...
Satellite or Meteor? Dissecting Light Trails in Your Sky Photos
Can you find the real meteor? It's the colorful streak in the center ending in a terminal burst. The rest...
Voyager 1 Shuts Down Another Instrument
An artist's concept of Voyager 1. NASA Voyager 1, one of NASA’s longest continuously running interplanetary missions, had another instrument...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya NASA’s...