Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Study Says Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Common- Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley …[READ MORE]

Spacecraft to Make Close Flyby of Comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4th – NASA’s EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per …[READ MORE]

Hubble Telescope Captures First Images of Aftermath from Possible Asteroid Collision NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected collision of two asteroids in space. The images show a bizarre X-shaped …[READ MORE]

Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen, at a distance of 7 billion light-years. …[READ MORE]

Discovery of First Truly Habitable Exoplanet Suggests Our Galaxy Could Be Teeming with Life- A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and supported by …[READ MORE]

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October of this year. The object …[READ MORE]

Breaking Waves in the Stellar Lagoon THE NASA/ESA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, launched into orbit two decades ago in 1990, continues to delight our sense of beauty as well as challenging our intellect. A case in …[READ MORE]

Join the World in Viewing the Moon on Sept. 18 On Saturday, Sept. 18, people around the planet will be gathering for the first-ever International Observe the Moon Night, a global event meant to get …[READ MORE]

Looking for the Coolest Forms of Life on Earth – Two UK scientists are traveling to one of the coldest places on Earth to help them understand how life could exist on other planets in …[READ MORE]

Cosmic Lens Used for the First Time to Study “Dark Energy” Astronomers have devised a new method for measuring what is perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe—“dark energy.” This mysterious force, discovered in 1998, …[READ MORE]