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NASA officially announced today that the crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion. This is the new capsule that will…

Learning the night sky is pretty intimidating. With enough desire and perseverance it’s achievable, even though thousands of individual stars…

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The night is alive this week with everything from bright planets to the first sliver of the…

We now know of thousands of confirmed exoplanets, with many more candidates. And there are now dozens of planet hunting…

NASA has announced a $500 million investment in two aerospace companies: SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler to help develop vehicles capable of…

Did the Earth capture the Moon with its gravity, did they form together in the early Solar System, or did…

There’s more dark matter than regular matter in the Universe, and they’re normally all mixed up together in galaxies. But…

A six year study by NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, or FUSE, satellite has turned up previously hidden quantities of…

This week's guest is Dr. Jessie Christiansen, aka the Aussie Astronomer. Jessie is an exoplanet researcher working at NASA's Exoplanet…

Since the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe has converted 20% of its original matter into stars. This…