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576-Loneliest Asteroid
A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path wo…
6 years, 1 month ago
64E-76-Waking Up To No Satellites
What would your day be like if you woke up and there were no functioning artificial Earth satellites? All of us have become used to finding our way …
6 years, 1 month ago
575-Big, Dangerous, and Tough
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope on…
6 years, 1 month ago
63E-75-Will Space Aliens Discover Us By Our Pollution
When a distant planet passes in front of its star some of the star's radiation goes through the planet's atmosphere. The pattern of colors or wavele…
6 years, 1 month ago
574-Record Year
In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to pla…
6 years, 1 month ago
62E-74-Space Aliens Listening To Our Sun
Suppose that a space alien were so far from us that our Sun appears as a tiny point of light in it's night sky. What would the space alien receive if…
6 years, 1 month ago
573-Sweet Asteroid
Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances. …
6 years, 1 month ago
61E-73-Mars 2020 Rover
In the 50 years that human made Travelers In The Night have been visiting the planet Mars we have discovered a wealth of interesting information abou…
6 years, 1 month ago
572-David's Fireball
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took a…
6 years, 1 month ago
60E-72-Could Space Aliens Detect Life On Earth
If a space alien were to peer around the edge of the Moon from its base on the far side it could see our lights at night and perhaps even the smoke f…
6 years, 2 months ago