+2 Gravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different By Will Dunham Reuters May 14, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why the…
Columnists Top Story View from Mars Hill: A look at the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun Apr 24, 2025 Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th …
Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead? By Will Dunham Reuters Apr 18, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on…
+3 Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet By Will Dunham Reuters Apr 16, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs y…
Columnists View from Mars Hill: The Beehive Cluster: A treasure beyond the faint smudge KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun Apr 10, 2025 As the night sky unfolds, a subtle yet captivating smudge of stars emerges high above at sunset. Known as the Beehive Cluster, this celestial …
Columnists View from Mars Hill: Moonstruck: An overview of the planets' moons KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun Mar 27, 2025 Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our solar system. Fast…
Columnists View from Mars Hill: March 13: A date of astronomical wonders and a total lunar eclipse KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun Mar 13, 2025 What do Uranus, Pluto, and an awe-inspiring celestial event have in common? They all converge on the iconic date of March 13.
Columnists View from Mars Hill: Planets on parade, with rare alignment KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun Feb 27, 2025 In her 2017 contemporary romance novel All the Lies We Tell â€� which I confess I have not read completely, or even partially beyond the followi…
Astronomers reveal 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere By Will Dunham Reuters Feb 19, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar sys…
