Roaming Astronomer

Near-Earth Object Discovery Teams There are several Near-Earth Object (NEO) discovery teams either in operation or in the planning stages....

Astronomy Day logo. Image Credit: The Astronomical League ( http://www.astroleague.org/  ) It  is time, again, for Astronomy Day--an...

Atens, Apollos and Amors Atens, Apollos and Amors are subgroups of Near-Earth asteroids, and are categorized by their orbits. In terms of ...

Asteroids And Comets Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the earliest years of the formation of our solar system m...

We are just at the end of the Pi Puppid meteor shower, a southern-hemisphere shower. This shower is not regularly visible to the naked eye, ...

With all of the recent news on meteors and Near-Earth Objects, I thought this would be an excellent time to dust off my old presentation on ...

This story just smacks of so much "coolness" that I have to share it, and quickly. It seems that the dream of asteroid mining is a...

A recent study finds that the lake known as Ontario Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan (left) bears striking similarity to Earth salt pans ...

Meteor News... Meteor News... Meteor News... This passed Sunday, April 22nd, there were reports of a fireball that roared over two weste...

The above image is an artist's concept of NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit of asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on i...

Let's catch up on some great news from earlier this month regarding mission funding. As a result of the 2012 NASA Senior Review of Astro...

The above image shows Carroll Glacier, Alaska. The left image is from August 1906 and the right image is from September 7, 2003. The ima...

The above image shows the arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81. In recent decades astronomers have thought that both the universe and gal...

The above image from 2011 is an artist's concept of how a Jupiter-like rogue planet might appear as it drifted through space. Image C...