Roaming Astronomer

The concept known as Plato seems destined to be the next mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision program. Plato was chosen by an expert panel a...

In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are testing a sophisticated flight-control algorithm that could ...

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on Ceres, the largest and roundest ...

Sometime between December 26, 2013 and January 8, 2014, a span of just 13 days, a bright rock came into view near NASA's Mars Explorati...

John Lowry Dobson (September 14, 1915 – January 15, 2014) was an amateur astronomer and best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable,...

On Monday, January 20, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft responded to communications from mission controllers after being in deliberate hibernat...

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray ima...

Bruce Churchill Murray, the Caltech professor of planetary science and geology who served as director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...

There is a new article on the Astrobiology Magazine that describes the dwarf planet Ceres as a "game changer" in that scientist m...

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As we noted earlier today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left the "Glenelg" area on July 4, ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity has soloed — that is, the rover has used autonomous navigation for the first time. This capability lets the rover ...

According to the measurements from NASA-supported observatories, something big is about to happen—the sun's vast magnetic field is about...

In central Beijing, tucked behind the southwest exit of the Jianguomen subway station, stands a stone platform which rises 14 meters (46 fe...

Robert S. Kraemer with a model of NASA/JPL's Viking orbiter-lander. Image Credit: Rogers Photo Archive Robert Samuel Kraemer, NASA’...

NASA has ended Kepler's primary and extended missions. But much mission data is still to be analyzed and NASA is seeking a new purpose f...