Tonight is the Great Conjunction with Jupiter and Saturn. It's visible just over the south-westsern horizon, and will be there for a ...

A thought: Earth is the only world out of countless trillions spread across the universe that holds the perfect conditions for life, be...

Dr. Tyson's badass jazz-hands Astrophysicist, bestselling author, science education advocate, "some guy from a Fox show" ...

I won't apologize for the all-caps there.  I mean, we are talking about something of monstrous proportions here... Four hundred-some ...

2013 is promising (or threatening, depending on the stock one puts in omens) to be an incredible year for comets in our sky.  Depending on w...

CNN and Fox News are proving they're worse than useless this morning when it comes to breaking news! The "big story" in the U...

That's odd. I've eaten lots of Milky Way bars at my girlfriend's house... ...and I didn't know the stuff was a laxative. *r...

Ever since I first saw this movie in February, it has lingered on the edges of my consciousness like no film before has. And of all the wond...

A police officer in Great Britain is weathering international ribbing after calling in for reinforcements to help with a potentially dangero...

Late last night the sad news arrived that Jack Horkheimer , known to millions as the "Star Hustler" and host of PBS's long-run...

Remember when the Mir space station came crashing and burning out of the sky nine years ago? I was watching that on TV and among friends we...

Apologies for the absence, dear readers. Of which no less than three of you have insisted today that I must return 'cuz apparently thi...

Here's something that's intrigued me for quite a few years. Saturn - the second biggest planet in the solar system - has an odd fea...

David Morris (left) is someone I've been honored to have as a friend for many years now so I know of what I speak when I say this: Davi...

From the shortest possible distance (the Planck Length) to the edge of the observable universe (93 billion light years) and everything in b...

Not really trees, but an optical illusion captured by NASA's HiRISE camera in orbit around the red planet. What appears to be a scatte...

Exciting news on the astronomy front: the most Earth-like planet yet outside our solar system has been discovered . The world, which thus f...

...it would possibly look like what Roy Prol has cooked up in this 3D animation. Prol took into account the Roche limit for Earth's mas...

Bernhard Christ, an amateur astronomer from Germany, put himself in just the right spot on the Earth's surface (a testament to his mad p...

Somebody get Roland Emmerich on the horn: his upcoming 2012 movie is gonna be off. Like, waaaay off. Per the reckoning of a group of scie...