2 JAN 2018 · Quadrantid meteors January 3-4, a West Coast-favoring total lunar eclipse, and time to start watching Mars!

12 DEC 2017 · More than 300 bright spots have been located on the surface of Ceres. Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission say the bright material indicates the dwarf planet is an active, evolving world.

1 DEC 2017 · Geminids, Ursids, winter constellations

30 NOV 2017 · A new NASA sea level simulator allows anyone with a home computer to try their hand at do-it-yourself glacier modeling.

28 NOV 2017 · In just a couple of years, NASA's newest rover will be flying to Mars. The Mars 2020 mission will use the next generation of science and landing technology to collect rock samples for possible return by a future mission.

20 NOV 2017 · Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect -- for the first time -- an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. Additional observations brought more surprises: the object is cigar-shaped with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.

14 NOV 2017 · The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020 NASA's next Mars rover. The test took place on Oct. 4, 2017, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. At the moment of full inflation, the parachute is going 1.8 times the speed of sound or nearly 1,300 miles an hour, and generating nearly 35,000 pounds of drag force-drag that would be necessary to help slow a payload down as it was entering the Martian atmosphere. This is the first of several tests in support of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

1 NOV 2017 · Dawn pairing of Jupiter and Venus, Moon shines near star clusters, meteor activity all month long.

28 SEP 2017 · Planet Pairs, Stellar Superstars, Observe The Moon Night!!

18 SEP 2017 · On Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini plunged into Saturn, ending its 20-year mission of discovery.