This Interstellar Asteroid Is Accelerating
Oumuamua is an asteroid traveling so fast, it could go from the moon to the earth in 73 minutes! See the speedy asteroid with the U. of Hawaii telescope.
Category: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Juno: What’s Jupiter Hiding?
The Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter is appropriately named. In Roman mythology, Jupiter created a veil of clouds to hide…
Book: See it with a Small Telescope
Take an adventure through the universe through the lens of your telescope! Author Will Kalif tells us about his book,…
Book Review: The Planet Factory
The Planet Factory is a guide to real-life Tatooines, planets made of diamonds, and possible Earth twins. It’s a story…
A Trip to Totality: Experiencing the 2017 Solar Eclipse
By Jeff Goldberg @jeffagoldberg For a while, I was conflicted about the effort to see the solar eclipse either in…
Shelf Life Video: Time Travel to Stars
With the help of high school students, scientists at The American Museum of Natural History are creating an online catalog…
Spacecraft Could Clean Up Trash Orbiting Earth
There is a lot of trash orbiting earth. More than 170 million pieces and counting, in fact. The pieces of…
Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino, former space shuttle astronaut and current professor at Columbia University, shares his path with us in his book, Spaceman.
NASA Astronauts Return from Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 49 crew member Kate Rubins, who became the first person to sequence DNA in space, returned to…
Telescope Accessories: What Do You Really Need?
The right telescope accessories can help you photograph the sky, the moon, the stars, and more. Learn how to choose the right ones for you.