Travelers In The Night

A small asteroid makes frequent visits to near Earth and Venus.

The Natural Night Sky awaits you.

The world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.

Jupiter, the king of our solar system, has provided us with a place to stand and air to breathe.

Fresh lunar craters tell us about objects which enter the Earth-Moon system.

Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.

A tough rocky asteroid that can stand the heat.

A close approaching asteroid was observed as it passed between the Earth and our Moon.

My Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target.

By drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.

You are less likely to be injured by a space rock than you might think.

A careful study of the Earth's motion in space is a key to understanding past climate change and enables us to predict future patterns of flooding and drought.

The third closest comet approach to planet Earth in recorded history gives us an opportunity to study a celestial wanderer.

Will spray paint save planet Earth?

A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.

Large dangerous asteroids are still out there to find.

We may be able to learn about the possibilities of life on Mars by studying land forms on the Tibetan Plateau here on Earth.

The Catalina Sky Survey now operates three telescopes, 24 nights per month, in the Catalina mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.

The asteroid named for Mildred Shapley Matthews was lost in the solar system for 75 years.

Pound for Pound Enceladus is the brightest object in our solar system. Could it be the home of alien life forms?