We live in times of extraordinary discovery. Exoplanets appear to be quite common in our galaxy. NASA’s Kepler Telescope has identified over 2,000 planetary candidates orbiting other stars. And yet…

A newly discovered exoplanet is two-thirds the size of Earth and a relatively close 33 light years away. But is it really a planet? UCF 1.01 is being called an exoplanet candidate. The reason is…

For not being a planet, according to 2 percent of astronomers, Pluto sure has a lot of moons. Now it has one more, joining Charon, which was discovered in 1978, Nix and Hydra, discovered in 2006, and…

Dark galaxies, theorized but unobserved, may have been spotted.  Dark galaxies are essentially gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe that are very inefficient at forming stars and astronomers…

Why do some extremely faint galaxies in our backyard contain so few stars? An international team of astronomers has helped solve the mystery of why these galaxies are starved of stars - and why so…

V1647 Ori resides 1300 light-years away in McNeil’s Nebula. It is a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma and astronomers have now been able to deduce what might…

The atmosphere of exoplanet HD 189733b, about 60 light-years from Earth, changed dramtically after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray radiation. Result: A powerful burst of…

Astronomers have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away. The galactic grouping was observed when the universe was roughly a…

Well, so as predicted Venus passed over the disk of our Sun yesterday (this morning, if you live in Europe), and it produced quite a show, as many pictures and videos available around testify. To…

This afternoon I will attempt to stream the transit of Venus live on an embedded stream on this website.  Meanwhile here are some resources on observing the transit.   First a personal…