Astronomy (Page 17)

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

It’s a Bus … It’s a Plane … It’s Super-Rock!

ICTMN Staff

January 27, 2012

An asteroid the size of a bus cruised past Earth at a distance of about 36,000 miles on Friday January 25 with no incident...

Sun Flared, Aurora Sizzled—Send Us Your Footage

ICTMN Staff

January 25, 2012

All over the north for the past few days, the recent plasma burst from the sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) has produced some spectacular aurora borealis sightings...

Solar Storm Rocks Aurora Borealis; See the Flare Erupt

ICTMN Staff

January 24, 2012

The radiation storm that sent debris rocketing toward Earth on January 23 is giving aurora borealis watchers a stunning light show as far south as Scotland and England and promises...

Massive Solar Eruption Sends Particles Earth’s Way, Polar Planes Rerouted

ICTMN Staff

January 23, 2012

Duck!...

Real Life Tatooines: Planets With Two Suns Abound

ICTMN Staff

January 20, 2012

Star Wars planet Tatooine is no fiction: In fact, according to NASA, two-sun planets may be more the norm than Earth's single-star solar system...

Mother Earth’s Sisters: More Than 100 Billion Planets in Milky Way

ICTMN Staff

January 12, 2012

There may be at least one planet per star in the Milky Way, which means that Mother Earth could have as many as a 100 billion sisters...

Quadrantids’ Fiery Journey: First Sky Show of 2012, Overnight Jan. 3-4

ICTMN Staff

January 03, 2012

A centuries-long journey will end tonight for hundreds of comet fragments as they smash into Earth's atmosphere at 90,000 miles per hour, burning up 50 miles above Mother Earth's s...

Venus and Moon in Love Dance the Day After Christmas

ICTMN Staff

December 26, 2011

Stargazers will get yet another celestial show when Venus and the sliver of the crescent moon flirt in the western sky just after sunset on December 26...

Comet Lovejoy Flaunts New Tail

ICTMN Staff

December 23, 2011

We humble beings residing on Mother Earth have been treated to quite the celestial show of late. Back in October there was the Orionid Meteor Shower ...