Dean W. Armstrong

This in an interesting swarm of earthquakes just to the north of Scotty's Castle in Death Valley. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes...

http://www.hcn.org/hcn/wotr/floyd-dominy-the-colossus-of-dams-dies-at-100

The Earth captured from the Rosetta spacecraft as it passed by Earth. . ESA. Taken on 11/12/2009. Click to enlarge. As seen on the Planet...

I missed something in the last post --the image is Venus and Earth from Mars. Venus is the bright point in the center, and Earth is the fai...

Astronomers have discovered a small inbound object a few meters across that appears to be on an impact course with the Earth. The object ma...

Despite still being in the dregs of the solar cycle the aurora occasionally really activates, and it's doing so right now. While it...

The Messenger spacecraft is now 17 hours away from closest approach to Mercury , the first spacecraft to visit the tiny, dense, and baked in...

Seen via BABlog .

Kaguya is a Japanese moon orbiter that is sending back HD video. And awesome images.

Phil Plait looks at the low southern moon here that I mentioned last month

Things have been very busy and as a result I've been unable to post--but today is the 50th anniversary of man's entry into space wit...

A dye laser points the way for the VLT towards the center of the galaxy. Grab the huge versions of these at the ESO press page . Seen via As...

A wonderful service from the National Forest Service is a webcam showing Mt. St. Helens from Johnson Ridge Observatory --and now it's go...

An older image, but cool nonetheless . Earth and Jupiter visible from Mars, taken by the now-deceased Mars Global Surveyor. Make sure you ...