Health & Science

You may have heard of Mars’ close approach, which means when you look in the night sky Mars is larger than ever. So large in fact t ...

May is Milky Way month and before your mouth starts to water we don’t mean the candy bar. If you look out to the horizon and nothin ...

Scientists have detected a tremendous explosion that occurred 3.1 billion light years away before the earth was even a mere gleam in it ...

48 years ago Alan Shepard led the first American mission into space on the heels of Russian cosmonaught Yuri Gagarin. Ten years later whi ...

A new rocky planet, similar to earth, orbiting a star called Gliese 581, has been discovered. This new planet is in the ‘habitable ...

It’s Dark Sky Week, which means it’s time to turn out your lights at night and reduce light pollution so everyone can gaze at ...

Earth is percieved as a rocky planet, what are other planets like? Did you know Mars is cold and that outer planets are really gigant ...

Continuing with our celebration of The International Year of Astronomy, Derrick Pitts talks about Galileo’s telescope and how h ...

It’s the international year of astronomy and Astronomers all over the world are recognizing Galileo’s first use of the te ...

The universe is growing all the time… clusters of galaxies exist with vast space in between them. What floats around in the huge ex ...

NASA spacecraft that were launched decades ago are finally exiting our solar system. What will we discover as they cross the fuzzy bounda ...

We recently had a near brush with disaster as an asteroid passed 40,000 miles from earth. Well, it wasn’t really that close to disa ...

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. No we’re not talking about rock stars, but stars in the night sky. Some star ...

Conditions in space are so very different than that of earth. When you think of hot, you think red, right? Not so in space. A hot star is ...

Another piece of the cosmic puzzle is discovered. A new planet less than twice the size of earth orbiting a sun like star. A rocky planet ...