Space News

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve extended the functionality of our Phases of the Moon App so that it’s now working on Apple iPads (iPad 1-4 and the iPad Mini). To take advantage of the bigger scree...

The European spacecraft has made some surprising discoveries.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by our pal Ray Sanders at his Dear Astronomer website. Click here to read Carnival of Space #274 And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to...

The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. (Elizabeth Howell) Hutchinson, KS – While the nation is polarized between choosing Barack Obama or Mitt Romney as the next American president, voters going to the polls ...

Radar images of asteroid 2007 PA8 acquired on October 28, 29 and 30. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gemini) Take a good look at asteroid 2007 PA8 — over the past week it was making its closest pass of Earth for the next 200 ye...

Another fantastic Virtual Star Party, with 5 telescopes revealing an amazing view of the night sky. We saw several favorite objects, like Andromeda, the Elephant Trunk Nebula, the Heart and Soul Nebulae, the Double Clust...