On Sunday, October 14, Heritage Auctions, based in New York City, will sell the largest piece of the Moon ever publicly offered. That sample will be one of the highlights of a set of nearly 100 meteorites — many with museum provenance — in...

Do you like astronomy? (Presumably, yes.) Do you like music? (Who doesn’t?) Are you in the Chicago area tomorrow? (Uhh… maybe?) Then have we got an event for you! Come join us — the Cosmic Adventures duo — at Ravinia for an...

Last month’s transit of Venus was a twice-in-a-lifetime event that won’t occur again until 2117, so it’s not surprising that astronomy clubs wanted to take advantage of it. As part of Astronomy magazine’s Discover the Universe...

Today was the day I looked forward to when I signed up for Comic-Con. At 2:30 p.m., two giants in the history of science-fiction cinema — director Roger Corman and actor William Shatner — would appear at a press conference. And I’d be...

By now, everyone who cares about the subject probably already knows about this month’s announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) about the discovery of a new particle . Probably a lot of people who don’t care...

My Internet access and ability to get enough bandwidth to post blogs and photos at Comic-Con was spotty, so although the event is now over, I still have plenty to share with you, starting with the second day of the convention. Because of preview night...

Day two at Comic-Con (the first official day) was, for me, a day full of panel discussions. That worked out well, too, because I got less than two hours of sleep the night before, and when a panel is occurring, the audience sits. Three of the five panels...

I arrived in San Diego at 11:30 a.m., a bit ahead of schedule because the last of my flights was shorter than advertised. A quick taxi ride got me to the hotel, the Marriott Marquis and Marina, which adjoins the convention center where Comic-Con is happening...

Because I've known for some time that I'm headed to Comic-Con in San Diego , and because I studied the schedule with the intensity of a nuclear physicist about to watch the first Higgs boson appear, I naturally have targeted certain events as "special...

It seems that every day, more researchers and observatories are learning the value of collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers. With the equipment access and computer skills of a growing number of technically capable hobbyists, they...

The world’s grea test multigenre convention is about to take place. San Diego Comic-Con International 2012 officially starts Thursday, July 12, and runs through Sunday the 15th. Actually, a preview night occurs Wednesday, July 11, for professionals...

UPDATE: The contest is now accepting submissions until the 14th! Looking for a different way to spend your 4th of July holiday, or perhaps you just need a midweek break to do some science? Why not create your own in-space experiment? Yup, you really...