Apollo Astronauts Couldn't Sleep Before Lunar Liftoff By Tony Phillips Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were supposed to sleep prior to liftoff. But how could they?
Cosmic Rays Might Come from Dark Matter By Tony Phillips A puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons is bombarding Earth from space.
100 Explosions Recorded on the Moon By Tony Phillips NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing a hundred times.
Strange Sunspot Looks Like Prehistoric Trilobite By Tony Phillips NASA scientists capture strange sunspot activity on magnetogram.
Scientist Devises Way to Forecast Solar Storms By Tony Phillips A scientist says he has figured out a way to forecast solar storms up to one hour before they strike Earth.
NASA: Help Us Spot Moon Meteorites By Tony Phillips No less than 11 meteors smacked into the Moon during December's Geminid meteor shower, NASA astronomers have found.
Doorstep Astronomy: Stars and Planets Align By Tony Phillips Something remarkable is about to happen in the evening sky. Three planets and a star cluster are converging for a close encounter you won't want to miss.
Sun's Currents of Fire Slow to Record Low By Tony Phillips The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, with important repercussions for future solar activity.
Broken Comet On Its Way By Tony Phillips Astronomers will soon get a second chance to view a comet that broke apart in 1995.
Surprise! Jupiter Has A New Red Spot By Tony Phillips Backyard astronomers, grab your telescopes. Jupiter is growing a new red spot.
Astronauts to Toss Spacesuit From International Space Station By Tony Phillips One of the strangest satellites in the history of the space age is about to go into orbit. Launch date: Feb. 3.
NASA Collects Gravity Data to Test Einstein's Theory By Patrick L. Barry, Tony Phillips NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has gathered all the data physicists need to check a bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.
Guitars and Rockets: Surprising Similarity Between By Tony Phillips They both resonate. That's good for a guitar, bad for a rocket. Learn more.
Fireball Sightings on the Rise By Tony Phillips Earth is orbiting through a swarm of space debris that may be producing an unusual number of nighttime fireballs.
Mars Hoax Circulates the Internet By Tony Phillips Mars won't be as big as the full Moon. But it will be a nice skywatching target later this year.
A Bad Week to be on the Moon By Tony Phillips The largest proton storm in years bathed the Moon in radiation. With no atmosphere, it's a dangerous place for astronauts.
Guide to the Orionid Meteor Shower By Tony Phillips Would you like to see a piece of Halley's Comet streak past a planet that looks like an exploding star? No problem. Just set your alarm.
Genesis Re-entry to Create Fireball in Western Sky By Tony Phillips At precisely 8:52:46 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), a white-hot dot of light will begin to glide across the blue morning sky.
