Astronomy (Page 3)

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

Smackdown: Russian Fireball Upstages Asteroid Swipe Over Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

February 16, 2013

If Friday February 15 had been scripted in a sci-fi movie, it wouldn’t have been believable...

Meteor Explodes in Fireball Over Ural Mountains, Injuring 500 and Blowing Out Windows in Russian City

ICTMN Staff

February 15, 2013

A meteor streaked across the early-morning sky in Russia and exploded into a fireball on Friday over the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains...

Universe Sends Mother Earth an Asteroid Valentine

ICTMN Staff

February 15, 2013

Lucky women the world over will no doubt be sporting diamond rings on the day after Valentine’s Day, or as some like to call it, a rock...

Solar Eruption Flings Particles Directly at Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

February 10, 2013

Astronomers and physicists have been saying it for years: At some point, the increased sun activity during the peak of its current 11-year cycle is going to get a glob of plasma th...

Tender New Moon Canoodles With Mercury in a Valentine's Day Prelude

ICTMN Staff

February 09, 2013

Aptly as Valentine’s Day approaches, February is the month to see pink-tinged Mercury hovering above the horizon at sunset...

Golden Rings and Dragon Tails: Our Sun Cavorts on Video

ICTMN Staff

February 02, 2013

The roiling, fiery disk that is our Mother Earth’s life-giving star whipped out a gigantic filament a couple of days ago that lashed out like a dragon tail, as NASA’s scientists ni...

Researchers Say Clovis Downfall Not Caused by Comet

ICTMN Staff

January 31, 2013

For years researchers have speculated that it was a comet that changed the earth’s climate enough to bring an end to the Clovis culture that thrived in North America some 13,000 ye...

Video: Mohawk Nation Singers Take Part in Lunar New Year Celebration

ICTMN Staff

January 30, 2013

Kontiwennenhawi and Bear Fox of the Mohawk Nation performed as part of a multicultural celebration on January 26 to celebrate the Lunar New Year at the American Museum of Natural H...