Travelers In The Night

The Lucy Spacecraft, named after the human fossil Lucy, will revolutionize our knowledge of the origins of our solar system.

Travel to the South Pole to Solve A Mystery.

When Failure Is Not A Good Option.

Small Impacting Space Rocks Are Part of Our Environment.

Good news. A large asteroid is not on a collision course with Earth.

Asteroid hunters are discovering asteroids which can be visited by human astronauts.

If Lunar and Martian Colonists are to have chips and salsa they will need grow their own tomatoes.

Comet Johnson will be visible to humans before it starts its trip to the stars.

Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

Large asteroids can approach the Earth, suddenly, without much warning.

Dangerous Celestial Neighbors Are Still Out There.

An observatory near Marrakech, operated remotely from France and Switzerland, is discovering new members of our solar system.

Astronomers are able to view the rare occurrence of planets in formation with the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.

An asteroid impacting into the ocean would create a big splash but not a tsunami.

Tiny messengers from outer space enter our atmosphere every day. Collect your own beautiful micro-meteorite sample.

Humanity should be ready in the unlikely but potentially catastrophic situation in which a comet comes out of nowhere and is heading for planet Earth.

A potentially hazardous asteroid crosses the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. It must be made of durable rocky material to survive its close approaches to the Sun.

A 426 foot diameter asteroid is found after being lost for 15 years.

It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.