The folks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have put together an amazing collection of some of the years finest astronomical images. Take a few minutes out of your busy day to view this spectacular presentation. It’s certainly been quite a year!

The second full moon in a month is called a blue moon. What do you call the 2nd new moon of the month? Good question, but… tomorrow nights new moon will be the 2nd of the month.

The northern lights appeared in the skies over Norway yesterday… and what a show it was! Captured in this sweet shot by Kjell Olav Romma over Trondelag, Norway is one sweet example of why we like these so much. Checkout Spaceweather.com for the latest on conditions relating to aurora.

Astronomers, testing out some new equipment were recently rewarded for their efforts when they recorded meteor striking the unlit portion
of the lunar surface. The meteor was likely from the Taurid Meteor Shower, which was
going on at that time. Unlike here on Earth, The Moon lacks an
atmosphere to protect it from these impacts. [...]

Utah Skies was recently presented with the Griffith Observatory Star Award. This award was established to recognize excellence in web sites that promote public awareness of astronomy. Sites that receive this award are considered the best astronomy sites on the World Wide Web, as they present useful, thorough, and accurate information in a well-organized and [...]

Once again, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has successfully tracked Santa in his frenzied flight from the North Pole around the world. Using four high-tech systems to track Santa - radar, satellites, Santa Cams and jet fighter aircraft - NORAD continues its 50-year tradition of helping us (in six languages) keep track of [...]

For the first time ever, astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have found precursors to DNA and Protein.. the most fundamental building blocks to life as we know it… surrounding a distant star. The ingredients were found in the inner regions of this distant solar system… at a distance similar to the distance that Earth [...]

Astronomers using the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a pair of new rings orbiting the planet Uranus. The rings are incredibly faint and required that Hubble take an extra long exposure just to glimpse them. In addition to this, they also announced the discovery of a pair of new moons as well. The discovery [...]

This near-last quarter moon was caught this morning in the west-south-western sky as the first light of the year’s shortest day touched the peak of Ecker Hill near Park City, UT. Due to the tilt of the earth’s axis relative to its orbit around the sun, we experience seasons, and today (about 5:30 this afternoon, [...]

An object orbiting the Sun in the outer reaches of our solar system has
astronomers and planetary scientists rethinking some of the most basic theories on the creation of our solar system. Officially designated as 2004
XR 190 by the International Astronomical Union and nicknamed “Buffy”, this object has an orbit that keeps it twice [...]