Space News

In the medical field, X-rays are used for finding and diagnosing all sorts of ailments hidden inside the body; in astronomy X-rays also study obscured objects like pulsars and black holes. Now, for the first time, X-rays...

In case you missed it live, here was our Virtual Star Party for Sunday, July 28, 2013. We had two active telescopes going, but they were highly automated scopes slewing from target to target with precise efficiency. We p...

When we heard that the Alan Parsons Project song "Eye in the Sky" was beamed to humanity's constant eye in the sky -- the International Space Station -- we just about exploded with space geekiness. It's even more awesome...

Our nearest star has exhibited some schizophrenic behavior thus far for 2013. By all rights, we should be in the throes of a solar maximum, an 11-year peak where the Sun is at its most active and dappled with sunspots. T...

Since the launch of its first satellite in 1972, the eight NASA/USGS Landsat satellites have made the longest continuous observations of Earth's surface, providing invaluable data for research in agriculture, geology, fo...

Shhhh, shhh. You can stop screaming. That's because nobody can hear you ... in space. But why not? How does sound work here on Earth, and what would it sound like on other planets?

Just outside of Borrego Springs, California monsters lurk. Life-size metal statues of dinosaurs, dragons, and wooly mammoths stand among giant insects, birds and several other creatures. But the 600,000 acrea Anzo-Borreg...

There's an excellent chance of frost in this corner of the universe: astronomers have spotted a "snow line" in a baby solar system about 175 light-years away from Earth. The find is cool (literally and figuratively) in i...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureux at his Links Through Space blog.