Astronomy (Page 4)

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

Moon and Jupiter Join Forces to Shine Down on Obama Inauguration

ICTMN Staff

January 20, 2013

The moon and Jupiter are gearing up for an inauguration show of their own: On January 21, the day Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, Mother Earth’s satellite and the sol...

Blazing New Comet, Sparkling Meteor Showers Among Many Sky Treats on Tap for 2013

ICTMN Staff

January 01, 2013

A newly noted comet is rocketing toward the sun, and by the time it gets near Earth at the end of 2013, it may very well outshine the full moon, astronomers say...

January Sky’s First Gift of 2013 Is Quadrantid Meteor Shower

ICTMN Staff

December 29, 2012

Now that the Mayan apocalypse (so called by everyone except the Maya) has come and gone, we can once again scan the skies without trepidation...

Moon and Jupiter to Give Christmas Sky Show to Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

December 25, 2012

It's Christmastime, and what more fitting an end to the day that celebrates the birth of a blessed child, and the coming of the light, than a conjunction between two of the sky’s b...

Add the Culturally Misappropriated Mayan Non-Apocalypse to the List of Failed Doomsday Predictions

ICTMN Staff

December 21, 2012

From Hale-Bopp, the famous comet, to the near-forgotten Hen of Leeds, history is littered with failed apocalyptic predictions...

Apocalypse Not: It's December 21, and We Are Still Here, as the Mayans Predicted

ICTMN Staff

December 21, 2012

At 6:12 a.m. today, the earth’s North Pole was tilted as far away from the sun as it ever gets...

Apocalypse Prophecies: Native End of the World Teachings

ICTMN Staff

December 20, 2012

“In the Hopi teachings,” he began, “we are told that toward the end of the world, Spider Woman will come back and she will weave her web across the landscape...

After We Survive the Purported Mayan Apocalypse, What Future Doomsdays Await Us?

ICTMN Staff

December 20, 2012

Dozens of prophesized doomsdays have passed uneventfully, and then society inevitably anticipates the next end-of-the world date...

Saturn and the Sun: NASA Delivers Again With a Stunning Image

ICTMN Staff

December 19, 2012

Amid all the apocalyptic predictions and real-life threats such as climate change, it is easy to be overcome with fear, dread or hilarity (after one too many meme cartoon send-ups ...