Sky and Rockets

New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizon...

NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket Wednesday evening from its Wallops Flight Facility. The mission is designed to test new technol...

Wouldn't you know it. As soon as I told friends that the clouds would prevent us from seeing the eclipse on Sunday evening, the sky deve...

Last month I was experimenting with imaging the moon through my 80mm guidescope.  The entire moon would not fit in the field of view, so I d...

The New Horizons probe has started it's year long task of transmitting the high resolution images from July's historic flyby of Pl...

Monday was such a great day (clear blue skies) and I was planning on spending the evening imaging some Deep Space Objects (DSOs), that I dec...

The new up-close view of Occator Crater from Dawn's current vantage point reveals better-defined shapes of the brightest central spot...

A so-called "floating spoon" on Mars spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover is cooking up a storm on the internet but it's ac...

The construction milestone, known as Critical Decision 3, is the last major approval decision before the acceptance of the finished 3.2-...

Recently a few of my friends have approached me asking about the rare occurrence of a 'Double Moon' - that Mars will be so close to ...