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Eddie Irizarry
Insight Mars is on its way
The Insight Mars lander is due to set down on Mars' surface in November, 2018.
May 5, 2018
Asteroid buzzed Earth this weekend
2018 GE3 swept by at half the moon's distance Sunday, just hours after being detected. Its size is 3 to 6 times that of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
April 16, 2018
See asteroid 2017 VR12 as it swept past
Asteroid 2017 VR12 passed at 3.76 times the moon's distance on March 7. Here are images and video of its sweep past Earth.
March 8, 2018
How to see rock-comet 3200 Phaethon
You can't see 3200 Phaethon - parent of the Geminid meteor shower and a strange asteroid-comet hybrid - with the eye alone. But backyard telescopes can pick it up. Charts and more here.
December 13, 2017
Asteroid to sweep close October 11-12
Asteroid 2012 TC4 is being used as a test of Earth's global asteroid defense system. How to see it online.
October 11, 2017
How to see binocular comet C/2017 O1
This faint comet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on October 14. It’ll be closest to Earth on October 18, passing distantly at about 67 million miles (108 million km).
September 18, 2017
Asteroid Florence found to have 2 moons
3122 Florence passed yesterday, biggest near-Earth object to pass so close in a century. Radar revealed 2 orbiting moons! Plus a chart that'll help you spot the asteroid.
September 2, 2017
See 4 planets during the total eclipse
During a total solar eclipse, the daytime sky darkens, and bright stars and planets pop into view. Charts here, identifying which ones for the August 21, 2017 eclipse.
August 21, 2017
Sunspots during solar eclipse? Probably
Add sunspots to the list of wondrous sights to look for during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017.
August 15, 2017
Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Whoosh! Astronomers discovered a small asteroid - now designated as asteroid 2017 OO1 - on July 23. That was 3 days after it passed 1/3 the moon's distance from Earth.
July 25, 2017
