Blaine Dickey

The best meteor shower of the year will occur this week on Sunday evening. Up to 120 meteors per hour may be observed. The Geminid meteor shower is known…

On April 13, 2029 a large asteroid named Apophis (Op-O-Hiss) with a diameter of over 1,000 feet will pass within 19,000 miles of the Earth. Because this…

Fomalhaut at this time of year can be seen as a bright star in the southern sky. Fomalhaut is also called the Lonely Star of Autumn because it is the only…

On Oct. 6, the planet Mars was nearer the Earth than at any time since July 2018. It will not be this close again for another 16 years. If you own a…

On October 20, 2018 BepiColumbo, a planetary mission to the Planet Mercury, was launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Exploration Agency. It…

When we think of a ringed planet in our solar system, Saturn naturally comes to mind. Besides Saturn however, there are three other planets that have…

Eris (AIR-ees) is the second-largest minor planet in our solar system and is only slightly smaller than Pluto by a mere 31 miles. Eris has an orbital…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array also known by the acronym ALMA is a large interferometer of 66 radio telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in…

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best and most reliable meteor showers of the year. This year the shower is predicted to peak Tuesday night August…

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is a wondrous world that is both similar and different from our Earth.On Oct. 15, 1997 a spacecraft launched from Earth…