Astronomy (Page 8)

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

By Any Name, Harvest Moon Shines on Over Indian Country

ICTMN Staff

September 29, 2012

You might have noticed the moon shining pretty brightly these past few days...

Space Buddha: Ancient Statue Carved From Rare Meteorite, Archeologists Say

ICTMN Staff

September 27, 2012

An ancient statue of a Buddhist god was carved from an even more ancient meteorite, a group of German scientists announced on September 26...

Magical Time-Lapse Video of the Northwest Stars Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

September 26, 2012

The Milky Way drifts across the sky. Aurora tumble and roll. Clouds flow like rivers or undulate like smoke...

Autumnal Equinox: First Day of Fall, Sacred Sites and a Quarter Moon

ICTMN Staff

September 22, 2012

That slight crispness to the air that signifies the change in seasons is now being backed up by the sun...

Chinle Summer Science Academy Melds Navajo and NASA Astronomical Knowledge

Melba A. Martin, Ed. D.

September 15, 2012

Melba Martin, solar system ambassador to the Navajo Nation from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spent part of the summer watching students in Chinle, Arizona, soak up knowledge a...

Multi-Planet System Discovered Around Binary Star Increase Odds of Life: Scientists

ICTMN Staff

September 08, 2012

The potential for life on other planets has been upped thanks for a recent new discovery...

Forest Service, Native Community Seek to Protect Sacred Site After Some Claim Mayan Connection

Simon Moya-Smith

September 03, 2012

Track Rock Gap—a 1,200-year-old archeological and Native American sacred site , located about 75 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia—has long gone undisturbed...

'Extreme Stargazing' on Deck for September Hard-Core Sky Watchers

ICTMN Staff

September 01, 2012

Summer is fading into fall, and nights are lengthening as Mother Earth’s axis tilts back toward the winter solstice...

Blue Moon: Give This Month's Second Full Moon a Wink for Astronaut Neil Armstrong

ICTMN Staff

August 30, 2012

On August 31, the moon will be full for the second time this month. Because of that, this one is called a blue moon—it almost never happens...

Neptune Rising, and Pluto Celebrates Five Years of 'Dwarf' Status

ICTMN Staff

August 25, 2012

It’s no moon , Venus , Jupiter or even Mars , but the eighth (and last, since Pluto was stripped of its status) planet in our solar system, Neptune, was at opposition on August 24...