Maybe we should add the Mars Rover to the Punxsutawney Phil gopher tradition of seeing his own shadow. NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image…

SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Mar 29 1735 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Mar 29 1748 UTC End Time: 2014 Mar 29 1754 UTC X-ray Class: X1.0 Optical…

Comet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet, discovered in 2013, was within the radius of Jupiter’s orbit when the Hubble Space Telescope…

It is hard to believe, Hubble is 24 years old. Launched on April 24, 1990 astronomers have taken an infrared-light portrait of a roiling region of starbirth located 6,400 light-years…

Saturn, which appears as only a thin, lit crescent, broken only by the shadows of its rings, poses gracefully for the Cassini spacecraft cameras. This view looks toward the unilluminated…

The Sun unleashed a M-9.3 flare, just short of an X class (the largest) from an active region right at the Sun’s edge (Mar. 12-13, 2014). The bright flash is…

When the entire program is complete in 2030 the Space Launch System will have cost the American taxpayers 41 billion dollars. (Or about 2.5 years of full NASA budgets). Ignoring…

I love to hate this stuff. It is Psudeo Science, seeing things that are not there…making up facts, conclusions from half the data. This one has over 4 million hits…