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I live in the frozen north by choice, but occasionally I yearn for warmer places like Tucson and Key West. These feelings usually start in late February, when after nearly four months of winter, the season feels endless....

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released an initial view of radar observations of asteroid 2012 DA14 generated from data obtained by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, taken on Feb. 15-16, 2013 as the asteroid headed...

"No matter how much you plan and prepare," said photographer Greg Gibbs, "sometimes you just have to be very lucky." As we mentioned last week, Jupiter and the Moon were going to have a close encounter in the sky on Febr...

Despite advances in exoplanet research over the past decade much remains unknown. For example, how do the detection rates of giant planets vary as a function of the host star's metal content? Are giant planets more frequ...

2013 could turn out to be a comet bonanza. No fewer than three of these long-tailed beauties are expected to brighten to naked eye visibility. Already Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS has cracked that barrier. Sky watchers in A...

There's a panoramic window on the International Space Station named after the observation decks that old-time train cabooses had. The Cupola, as it's known, includes six side windows and a big one in the center. An astro...

Created by the MESSENGER mission team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, this animation gives us a look at the spinning globe of Mercury, its surface co...

What do you get when you mix physics, math, semantics, astronomy, cosmology, philosophy, and a lot of markers? This. See more videos by MinutePhysics here. © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No commen...

Stretching across three light years of space and located about 3,000 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Musca, an incredible and rather understudied planetary nebula awaits a new hand to bring out ...