The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...
Death Valley offers some of the best stargazing in America. DarkSky International has designated Death Valley National Park a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park, which is the highest rating of darkness. With the ...
If a Galactic Internet is out there, we may be like fish swimming through the ocean, unaware of the undersea cables carrying vast streams of information around us. The data may be flowing right past ...
Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for ...
January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...
All good as long as the winds do not get crazy! Cheers, from Untersee, snow just starting to fall, winds starting to pick up..; Power going off in a minute and off to bed, more tomorrow! Keith’s note: ...
On the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, we remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives—Francis “Dick” Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith ...
Every second, lightning strikes 50 to 100 times somewhere. It can wreak havoc by starting wildfires and sometimes killing people. But lightning also produces a form of nitrogen that’s essential to ...