Astronomy News

Psilocybin mushrooms' power to throw open the doors of perception is well documented in ancient legend and modern song.

An artist's rendition of Voyager 2 in space. The spacecraft, one of two launched in 1977, is about to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space, something no man-made object has ever done.

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'Project Calliope' is a pico-satellite funded by Science 2.0 and being launched in 2011 by a mad scientist who is a space & music enthusiast... While I've been strangely silent, the space industry is surging ahead.

Explanation: Lighting the night last Tuesday, February's Full Moon is sometimes called the Snow Moon.

Explanation: This sharp Hubble Space Telescope view looks deep into NGC 6752 . Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Every season has its share of interesting astronomical wonders for us to marvel at in the heavens.

Today is the anniversary of NEAR landing on asteroid Eros. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission was the first to ever orbit an asteroid, successfully sending back thousands of images.

Miniature Stela from the Walters Art Museum exhibit Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift.

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Have you ever seen northern lights? Nasa has released a video of the Northern lights seen in the Northern U.S. and in Canada.

Two Earth -size worlds orbiting perilously close to their dying star may be the fractured remnants of a Jupiter -like gas giant, a new study suggests .

For the first time astronomers have captured highly detailed pictures of a dwarf galaxy consuming an even smaller companion-one so diminutive that at first it looked like nothing more than a smudge.

A team led by UCLA research astronomer Michael Rich has used a unique telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449, which is some 12.5 million light years from Earth.

All writers love to read, and our friend Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer is no exception.

As I've mentioned before, it's amateur astronomers, not professionals, who are shouldering the burden of constant monitoring of the weather on Jupiter and Saturn.

Madison County's history of inventors is long and storied. Patents exist for numerous inventions that have roots in Madison County.

Building on the success of the inaugural Festival in 2010, the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with school programs and nationwide contests throughout the 2011/2012 school year and a finale Expo in Washington DC in the Spring of 2012.

The sparkling night skies over Big Bend National Park were captured by Dr. Tyler Nordren, a physics professor who has written a book about night skies across the National Park System.

Dr. Paul Scowen lectures students at the bi-monthly lectures put on by the ASU Astronomy Club.