Astronomy (Page 3)

Surprise Meteor Shower Possible, Gamma Delphinids’ First Appearance Since 1930

Insomniacs rejoice, for the sleepless who gaze skyward at...

Jupiter Exits, Venus and Mercury Have June Spring Fling

While Mercury, Jupiter and Venus have been triangulating...

Massive Asteroid, Blacker Than Coal and Toting Its Own Moon, Shoots Past Earth

The literal mother of all asteroids—as far as Near Earth...

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

Watching planets and stars as they appear in the sky is...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter in Tight Triangular Tryst

A rare meeting between three luminescent heavenly bodies...

May Super Moon Bigger Than Life, Plus a Tiny Eclipse

The venerable and ever-faithful moon actually orbits Mother...

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Astronomy

Awe-Inspiring Tour of Planets in Our Galactic Neighborhood

ICTMN Staff

April 06, 2013

Soar through space with this amazing video showing our possible brother and sister planets in the universe—just in our galactic neighborhood, in fact...

Saturn, Solar System's Time Capsule, Dates Back More Than 4 Billion Years

ICTMN Staff

March 30, 2013

Majestic Saturn, just a yellow dot when seen from Mother Earth, also serves as a time capsule of sorts, with relics f

Green-Tailed Fireball Wows Turtle Island's Eastern Seaboard

ICTMN Staff

March 23, 2013

Last month a meteor streaked across the skies above the Ural mountain range in Siberia, and on Friday March 22 it was Turtle Island's turn...

First Day of Spring: The Skies Have It, as NOAA Catches the Vernal Equinox in Space

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

Spring may have arrived on Earth with a winterish whimper, but what’s happening in the sky is preordained. At 7:02 a.m...

First Day of Spring Brings the Light, but not a Hint of Heat

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

It’s the first day of spring, when day and night are just about equal in length. The moment occurred at 7:02 a.m. Eastern Time today...

Aurora Borealis Bathes Turtle Island in Saint Patrick's Day Green

ICTMN Staff

March 18, 2013

The sun got into the Saint Patrick’s Day act by hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) straight at Mother Earth a couple of days earlier...

Break Out Your Binoculars, or Not: Comet Pan-STARRS Gives Naked-Eye Sunset Show

ICTMN Staff

March 09, 2013

This weekend is the closest that comet Pan-STARRS gets to the sun, and it is predicted to glow brightly right above the western horizon just after our star sets on the evenings of ...