ESA’s Planck Mission – Celebrating the Legacy
From the tiniest fraction of a second after the Big Bang to the evolution of stars and galaxies over 13.8 billion years, ESA’s Planck space telescope…
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NuSTAR Starts Returning X-Ray Images of the Cosmos
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first…
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Spitzer Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s…
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SETI: British Style
SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is an almost uniquely American affair. There was a time when it was funded by the US government, but that…
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Help Fund the World’s First Crowdfunded Space Telescope That Will Be Accessible to the Public
Alien planets are out there and Planetary Resources needs your help to find them! That’s right, the same high-powered telescope technology being used by Planetary Resources…
Read the guideOpening the Space Frontier to All – Planetary Resources
Planetary Resource’s dedication to prospecting asteroids with space telescopes is an interesting opportunity. Today (May 29th, 2013) they’ll be announcing something big that anyone can be…
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Mega Galaxy Merger Spotted by Herschel Space Telescope
A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important…
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How Do You Target an Asteroid?
Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many…
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS Gives a Whiff of Dark Matter
In science fiction, finding antimatter on board your spaceship is not good news. Usually, it means you’re moments away from an explosion. In real life, though,…
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Astronomers (And Everyone Else) Are Losing the Night
Starry skies are a vanishing treasure because light pollution is washing away our view of the cosmos. It not only threatens astronomy, it disrupts wildlife, and…
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