NASA’s next flagship astronomy mission after the James Webb space
Telescope will become a formal project in February thanks to increased
funding and direction from Congress,...
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has found lots of new planetary systems
over the last few years. Many of these systems have more than one
planet, much like our solar system. The ul...
Star Trek was all over the news in 2015, for reasons that ran the
gamut: heartbreakingly sad, exciting, amusing, inspirational,
informative. So, please join StarTrek.com [http...
Gravity is a fundamental force of physics, one which we Earthlings
tend to take for granted. You can't really blame us. Having evolved
over the course of billions of years in ...
Here it is... our year end look at upcoming events in a sky near you.
We've been doing this “blog post that takes four months to write"
now on one platform or another every ...
Johannes Kepler [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler]
(December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the 17th
century scientific revolution was born 444 y...
A nebula is a truly wondrous thing to behold. Named after the Latin
word for "cloud", nebulae are not only massive clouds of dust,
hydrogen and helium gas, and plasma; they ar...
“There and back again,” said spaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk
after the amazing successful ‘Return to Flight’
[http://www.universetoday.com/124020/successful-spacex-la...
I’m not a fan of cold weather, but I love to prepare activities with
winter themes … as long as I’m nice and warm while I’m preparing
them! I’ve done a lot of resear...