Skytalk Archive

The early June night sky offers plenty of treats for viewers. Derrick offers a simple time-tested way to test the passage of time. Camelo ...

Following the failure of a position stabalizer, the Kepler Planet Hunter satellite has been successfully re-oriented – by using sol ...

Look for a new meteor shower this weekend – First pass ever Saturday May 24. Camelopardalids may be the biggest shower of the year. ...

Sun’s sibling identified – HD 162826 is 100 light years away, 15% more massive than our sun, found in Hercu ...

Scientists can now reliably calculate that the universe is expanding symmetrically, thanks to data from very big radio ...

Annular (“ring”) Eclipse of the Sun tomorrow – Partial at best for most of Australia, Antarctica come ...

Lyrid Meteors beckon, though the shower rate pales in comparison to Geminid or Perseid. Philadelphia Science Fair kicks ...

Lunar Eclipse late tonight/early tomorrow – First of two lunar eclipses this year. The October 8th eclipse is les ...

NASA curtails operations with Russia – most recent announcement exempts ‘big-ticket items’ like ISS c ...

NASA crowd-sourcing for ideas on how to bring an asteroid into lunar orbit. Open to companies, universities, non-profit ...

New data collected at South Pole indicates light polarized in a way that can only be caused by gravity waves that were ...

Astronomers get their first glimpse of Yellow Hyperstar (HR 5171) one of the 10 largest known stars – 12,000 lig ...

Geologists have identified Zircon in ancient sandstones in Australia; Zircons are very hard to destroy or alter and whe ...

Can you BELIEVE it! – Switch to Daylight Saving Time this Sunday at 2:00 a.m. Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras ...

China Space Agency says reports of Yutu’s Death were premature. There is some kind of mechanical problem, but com ...