Space

The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...

Astronomers use data from the Keck Telescope to identify the most distant object in the universe ever observed – it’s an eigh ...

Last Thursday, after 11 years in space, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft made a scheduled crash onto the surface of Mercury, but not bef ...

This Friday, May 1st is a cross-quarter day – halfway between the first day of spring and the first day of summer. It’s a day ...

Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...

Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...

Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...

US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...

– A total solar eclipse is available to be seen – if you’re willing to travel . . . and if you’re willing to chan ...

Meetings at The Jet Propulsion Lab last week indicate that a major reason why NASA is pursuing landing on Mars is to protect human existe ...

Thursday’s full moon is the Harvest Moon, which is the full moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox, which arrives S ...

Moon is full tomorrow night, so watch as the moon rises as the sun sets or moon sets as sun rises. Venus and Saturn are ...

Count on an early setting moon, and with clear skies the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower has the potential to ...

A 14th moon of Neptune has been discovered and this one gets the prize for smallest size. Also, we’ll look back o ...

You have until July 1st to sign up to send your name to Mars with MAVEN – first spacecraft dedicated to study of ...