Coming this month: Closest Known Approach by a Lar

2005 YU-55 is going to make a very close approach to the Earth on the night of November 8, 2011. At that time, its distance from Earth will be just [...]

An Asteroid’s Surface in Fine Detail

A new video from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn’s framing camera, used to [...]

Breathtaking New Images of the SUN

Don’t miss these images in 1080p, from the big CME on June 7, 2011. These unbelievable new images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory would have seemed impossible just a short [...]

Big Solar Eruption, Detail from STEREO spacecraft

The Sun erupted on March 19, 2010 in a coronal mass ejection. The STEREO A satellite captured it from one side, revealing huge loops of plasma blasting off the Sun’s [...]

Solar Tsunami

Excerpt from “Attack of the Sun.” The SOHO spacecraft has recorded the effect of all this rising energy. Its ultraviolet sensors show a wavy pattern of gas on the sun’s [...]