Quirky, an industrial design company based in New York City, is developing a product that enables consumers to take surprisingly good photos from space, utilizing a weather balloon with a mounted camera inside. The produ...

Today is New Year's Day, which simply means the ea...  ...ts for a "day" and a "year." Read the rest at Bad Astronomy

This photograph of star trails over Lake Tyrrell i...  ...Cherney. His daughter's school project involving astronomy was the origin of Cherney's interest in the subje...

Phil Plait at Slate has compiled a best-of list of...  ...hil Plait at Slate has compiled a best-of list of astronomy images from 2012 that are pretty spectacular. Inc...  ...ze of the Earth.See the rest of the images at Bad Astronomy . Link(Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO)

Dreaming of relocating to another planet? The term "exoplanet" is used to describe any planet that orbits a star in a solar system other than our own. The Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Ric...

Dr. Phil Plait wrote a book called Death From The...  ...the world ever, let alone by this weekend.At Bad Astronomy , Plait goes on to explain how other doomsday theo...

Illustrator Scott Benson created an awesome poster/chart that celebrates space exploration and travel. It changes with the light!This illustrated chart was designed by me and hand-printed by my dear friends at Commonweal...

Data sent back to earth from the MESSENGER spacecr...  ...atory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory)

Light detected by the Hubble telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is believed to have come from the most distant galaxy yet. The galaxy is called MACS0647-JD, and from our perspective, is seen between the B...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in norther Chile spied something strange around the dying red giant star R Sculptoris: a spiral structure thought to be made o...