Looking Up

U.S. High-School Students Help Space Scientists Recover Spacecraft in Australia: For millions of American high-school students, early June means long …[READ MORE]

Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery In his landmark collection Leaves of Grass, famed poet Walt Whitman wrote …[READ MORE]

Astronomy from an Airplane? A New Way of Looking Up Can you imagine a telescope the size of Mount Wilson …[READ MORE]

Phoenix Mars Lander Does Not Phone Home NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the …[READ MORE]

Arc to Arcturus OF THE 2,000 OR SO STARS that are visible to the unaided eye (or would be, in …[READ MORE]

Setting Sail for the Stars – The spring winds gusting across the Southland today almost had me grumbling about wind …[READ MORE]

NASA’s New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning …[READ MORE]

Long-Lost Soviet Reflector Found on Moon A team of physicists led by a professor at UC San Diego has pinpointed …[READ MORE]

‘This Planet Tastes Funny,’ According to Spitzer Telescope NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet—it …[READ MORE]

Sun Fire, Moon Ice, Westchester Stars An international team of solar and space scientists have built the most complete picture …[READ MORE]