NEOWISE
NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years
The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a…
A Tiny Asteroid was Discovered Mere Hours Before it Crashed Into the Earth
Last week, a small asteroid was detected just two hours before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily, it was only about…
The Real Science Behind the Movie “Don’t Look Up”
The new movie “Don’t Look Up” -- now available on Netflix -- is not your usual sci-fi disaster film. Instead,…
New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way’s Galactic Halo
The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with…
Tales of Two Fall Comets: 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS
Two more comets worth scouting the sky for into November 2020.
Finally! We’ve got a comet that’s visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE
Look up! A rare naked-eye comet, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), is now visible to the unaided eye. But act fast -…
This Summer’s Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA’s NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks
Last July, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened. Not the good kind; the football-field-sized-asteroid near-miss kind. And that near miss is the…
NASA’s NEOWISE Missions Spots New Comets
NASA's NEOWISE mission has been responsible for many interesting finds, the latest of which are two possible comets that could…
NASA Discovers 72 New Asteroids Near Earth
Since 2013, the NEOWISE mission has surveyed more than 19,000 asteroids and comets and discovered 72 new Near Earth Objects…
The Next Generation of Exploration: The NEOCam Mission
In February of 2014, NASA put out the call for submissions for the thirteenth mission of their Discovery Program. In…