Astronomy

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

Eta Aquarid Shooting Stars, Messengers From Halley's Comet, at Their Peak

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...

Saturn, Ready for Its Closeup

Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...

Watch Water Become Zero-Grav Jello on the International Space Station

If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...

Three Years in Three Minutes: Whirling Sun Sparks and Flares in Entrancing Video

The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...

Earth Day: Stunning Aurora Borealis Video Highlights Just How Small We Are

The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...

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Astronomy

Flight of Fancy: What the Planets Would Look Like if They Were as Close as the Moon

ICTMN Staff

May 18, 2013

Watching planets and stars as they appear in the sky is captivating, but gazing at pinpricks of light glistening against the celestial sphere doesn’t give the heavenward ogler a se...

Jupiter and Tender Crescent Moon Flirt Chastely on Mother’s Day

ICTMN Staff

May 11, 2013

We've seen Jupiter, the moon and Venus cavort in the sky in various configurations for months...

One Annular Sensation: Ring of Fire Eclipse Livestreaming From Australia—See it Right Here, Right Now

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

The sun and moon are at it again, and this time, like last year over Indian country, the moon is putting a ring on it...

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

ICTMN Staff

May 06, 2013

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars streak across the sky in time-lapse curves...

Eta Aquarid Shooting Stars, Messengers From Halley's Comet, at Their Peak

ICTMN Staff

May 04, 2013

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as being from the tail of the renowned Halley’s comet, Earth actually passes through this tail twice each year, and we are in t...

Saturn, Ready for Its Closeup

ICTMN Staff

April 27, 2013

Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon eyeful of Saturn’s wonders via satellite photographs...

Three Years in Three Minutes: Whirling Sun Sparks and Flares in Entrancing Video

ICTMN Staff

April 24, 2013

The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be the life giver that she is...

Earth Day: Stunning Aurora Borealis Video Highlights Just How Small We Are

ICTMN Staff

April 22, 2013

The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next, with sunspots bursting forth in solar flares and coronal mass ejections every few days...

Lyrid Meteor Shower Graces Pre-Dawn Earth Day Sky

ICTMN Staff

April 20, 2013

The pre-dawn hours of Earth Day this year bring the Lyrid meteor shower, during which fragments of Comet Thatcher (no relation to iconic Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, who was laid t...