Looking Up

Join the World in Viewing the Moon on Sept. 18 On Saturday, Sept. 18, people around the planet will be …[READ MORE]

Looking for the Coolest Forms of Life on Earth – Two UK scientists are traveling to one of the coldest …[READ MORE]

Cosmic Lens Used for the First Time to Study “Dark Energy” Astronomers have devised a new method for measuring what …[READ MORE]

Eclipsing Pulsar Promises Clues to Crushed Matter A city-sized sphere rotating 518 times a second… Astronomers using an X-ray telescope …[READ MORE]

Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever; Perseid Meteors Return August 12 A camera aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft …[READ MORE]

New Signaling Concept Could Refocus Search for Signs of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life For 50 years, humans have scanned the skies …[READ MORE]

Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne …[READ MORE]

Sky Treats for Your Summer Pleasure… July Sees Gathering of Five Bright Celestial Lights An array of five of the …[READ MORE]

On its Way to a Comet, Spacecraft Checks Out an Asteroid The Rosetta orbiter, which carries the lander Philae, has …[READ MORE]

Voyager 2 Completes 12,000 Days of Continuous Operations; New “Cosmic Café” Opens on Mt. Wilson On June 28, 2010, Voyager …[READ MORE]