On the night of March 17th, a boulder slammed into the Moon, creating the biggest explosion scientists have ever seen since on the Moon since they started monitoring it eight years ago. “On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,” Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement. “It exploded in... 

The Lyrid meteor shower happens each year in mid-April when the Earth passes through debris from the Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), which orbits the sun once every 415 years. Humans have been observing this particular meteor shower for at least 2,600 years. Unfortunately, the moon will spoil the meteor shower because it’s in the bright gibbous phase. Even then, the Lyrid meteor shower typically... 

Pluto may have 10 or more moons in orbit, according to a new simulation by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A computer simulation, previously designed to study the formation of planets and other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, was used to do calculations regarding the formation of Pluto and its moons. “It’s hard to say how many there are,”... 

It is not often that planet Earth is threatened by a meteor and really uncommon for a meteor to actually hit and make an impact, but such has been the case in the country of Russia. Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the Russia Urals region skies before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang early Friday morning. The explosion was reported about... 

A black hole is an area of spacetime in which massive amounts of gravity prevent things from escaping. This actually includes all light including reflections, hence the term black hole. These huge mass bodies form when large stars explode at the end of their life or what is known as a supernova.  Once the hole is formed it can continue to gain mass by absorbing everything around it, including other... 

Asteroid 2012 DA14 is set to pass by Earth in a record setting close shave on February 15, 2013. The asteroid will come even closer than the moon. It’s going to come within 17,200 miles of Earth, reports NASA scientists. “This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans, the head of NASA’s asteroid-tracking program, said in a statement. “Since regular sky surveys... 

The Super Bowl will be watched by the Astronauts in Space. So while they may be miles away, just like you and me, they won’t be missing any of the football action or commercials. One of the Super Bowl commercials actually features “Space Babies” by Kia, in which a father tells his young son that all babies (even animal tots) actually come from the alien planet Babylandia, and launch... 

The Curiosity team announced on Tuesday that the rover is now considered to be in a “candy store” for future findings. The newest point of emphasis has been found at the lowest point of Gale crater in an area known as Yellowknife Bay. It is filled with a plethora of different materials that can only exist if there had previously been water. Finding this new source on the red planet is... 

An amateur astronomer has released a video to a local news station for review after he caught an explosion through his telescope recently. The man’s name is Elijah Prychodzko and he witnessed this bizarre event in the Sacramento sky on December 20th, 2012 at around 5:00pm PST. Mr. Prychodzko was trying to sell his video on Craigslist to people to see if anyone was interested in owning the rare... 

Tau Ceti is a star that is very similar to our current sun. It’s roughly 78% of the Sun’s mass, has a similar temperature and is just under 12 light years away from our solar system. Astronomers believe they have recently detected 5 planets orbiting Tau Ceti and one is potentially habitable. Most stars are burning very faint and cool. Tau Ceti is an extremely bright G-Type yellow sequence...