Details of the next NASA Discovery Program Mission Announcement of Opportunity have been released by NASA. The draft of the AO will be rel...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched earlier today to perform the fourth and last servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope . This Sh...

My podcast for the 365 Days of Astronomy should be online later today, if it isn't already. The topic of my podcast is "It's ...

There are some new web trends that I grab onto with both hands. There are others, like Twitter, that I avoid for the longest time before br...

Well, Hey Hey all! You've probably been wondering where in the world I have been. Well, I have been around, but unfortunately there ha...

The Io poster session at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference is tonight! Unfortunately, I'm not there, I'm here in Tucson. ...

The 1980 television series, Cosmos, is now available on Hulu in its entirety . The series, hosted by Carl Sagan, was a landmark series for ...

One of the two STEREO spacecraft, the one trailing Earth, captured this view of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun as well as Jupiter an...

Okay, I've been telling myself that I wouldn't post about this, then I found the trash talking thread , and finally I got my blood u...

While Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai would be a great name for a volcano on Io, I am actually referring to the undersea volcano in the South Paci...

With Saturn high in the sky nowadays and Jupiter finally starting to rise out of the muck in the morning sky here on Earth, some great astro...

A couple of weeks ago, I uploaded a video showing an animation of Voyager 1's encounter with Io. I have gone ahead and uploaded animat...

Recently I wrote a quick note on some research conducted by Robin Canup and William Ward that suggested that Jupiter "ate" many o...

Ken Murphy over the blog Out of the Cradle is hosting this week's Carnival of Space, the 94th Edition . This week, learn more about Hi...

So yesterday, I reminded all of you to check out the National Geographic Channel show Naked Science, which had a new episode last night tit...