Sunset adds a Seattle spin to tonight’s solstice and the scientific start of summer Tonight marks the summer solstice, which means Seattleites and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere are saying farewell to spring… Read More
UW’s DIRAC Institute gears up for big data from wide-angle telescope surveys A new data analysis center for what’s expected to be torrents of astronomical imagery is taking shape at the University… Read More
SkyMapper Sighting signs up citizen scientists to hunt for supernovae Calling all citizen scientists: The Australian National University wants you to join the search for supernovae. Brad Tucker from the… Read More
Astronomy Rewind sifts through old pictures to find new cosmic perspectives A new project called Astronomy Rewind is recruiting citizen scientists to bring decades-old cosmic images back from the dead and… Read More
Looking for Planet 9 and other far-out objects? Finally, NASA has an app for that Citizen scientists can join an online hunt for icy worlds, brown dwarfs and other yet-to-be-discovered objects beyond the orbit of… Read More
Video: Watch a journey to Jupiter created by amateur astronomers around the globe While NASA’s Juno orbiter is giving Jupiter its close-up, a new video based on more than 1,000 images taken by… Read More
Astronomers round up the unusual suspects for ‘alien megastructure’ star That mysterious “alien megastructure” star is still a mystery, but the most plausible explanations appear to be dense patches of… Read More
Astronomers’ latest analysis turns ‘alien megastructure’ star into a triple mystery It’s been almost a year since astronomers first speculated that a strangely dimming star called KIC 8462852 might harbor an… Read More
Scientists explain how a giant impact created Mars’ past and present moons Are Mars’ two moons asteroids that were captured by the Red Planet’s gravitational field, or are they the result of… Read More
Youngest planet spotted around alien star Scientists say they’ve detected a giant planet circling a star that’s only 5 million to 10 million years old, which would make… Read More
Most of us can’t see the Milky Way – this dark sky atlas shows you where you can Eighty percent of Americans can’t see the Milky Way from where they live, according to a new analysis of light… Read More
Holy Hubble! See a super-sized Mars get bigger than it’s looked for a decade For the next couple of weeks, Mars will look bigger than it’s looked in a decade! And no, this is… Read More
Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the clouds For the first time in a decade, we Earthlings can watch the planet Mercury’s black speck pass across the sun… Read More
Hubble bubble! Nebula shines on birthday card for 26-year-old space telescope It’s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to… Read More
Siberian unicorns? Five incredible science tales that aren’t April Fool’s jokes Unicorns are real! Scientists propose cloaking device to protect Earth from aliens! Glow-in-the-dark skin grown in lab! Those may sound… Read More
Watch this week’s total solar eclipse online – and get set for 2017’s big one This week’s total solar eclipse is a bad-news, good-news, even-better-news situation for skywatchers in the United States. Solar eclipses are… Read More
Far out! Hubble astronomers set record for spotting most distant galaxy (again) Like the rockers in “This Is Spinal Tap,” astronomers cranked the dials on the Hubble Space Telescope up to 11… Read More
NASA finishes huge mirror for James Webb Space Telescope, due for 2018 liftoff NASA has put the 18th and final piece of the puzzle into place for the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope’s… Read More
‘Planet Nine’? Astronomers boost the case for a large, unseen Planet X For decades, astronomers have gone back and forth over whether a “Planet X” exists on the edge of our solar… Read More
‘Alien megastructure’ revisited: Oddly dimming star poses new mystery He’s not saying it’s aliens – but an astronomer has raised new questions about KIC 8462852, the strange star that stirred… Read More
Women in astronomy use #astroSH hashtag to share stories of sexual harassment The hashtag #astroSH is being used on Twitter this week to highlight stories from women who say they have been sexually… Read More
Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaber Leave it to the scientists behind the Hubble Space Telescope to capitalize on the craziness over “Star Wars: The Force… Read More
It’s a first: Hubble scientists successfully predict supernova’s ‘instant replay’ Astronomers traced one of the weirder twists in relativity to determine when they’d see an “instant replay” of a distant supernova, and… Read More
Geminid meteors bring holiday cheer – but only upon a midnight clear The most reliable meteor shower of the year reaches its peak tonight – but to catch the Geminids, you’ll have to… Read More
Planet X? Probably not, but ALMA telescope array’s readings stir up debate An array of radio telescopes in Chile has picked up weird readings that appear to be coming from far-out objects… Read More
High-flying scientists capture mystery object WT1190F’s fiery breakup on video Scientists flying on an instrument-laden jet captured great video views of a mysterious space object known as WT1190F as it… Read More
Astronomers spot most distant known world in the solar system: V774104 Astronomers say they’ve identified the most distant celestial object in our solar system – a speck of light more than three times… Read More
Alien megastructures? SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array targets weirdly winking star One of the premier telescope arrays in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is focusing its antennas on an… Read More
Supermoon Sunday! How to make the most of the total lunar eclipse Sunday’s super-sized total lunar eclipse is special for a couple of reasons, but it’s extra-special for places like Seattle, where… Read More
Top 5 places for Seattle skywatchers to see the Perseid meteor shower The Perseids are traditionally among the most popular meteor showers of the year, and Seattle is traditionally one of the worst… Read More
