Outer Planet News Today

During May, those looking for planets will need to get up early before sunrise. Although Jupiter is technically still an evening planet, it is now so close to the sun

Nasa has unveiled ambitious projects and specified funding that are termed by the agency as science fiction-like concepts, under its Innovative Advanced Concepts .Despite the high-end commitment,...

Were now in the home stretch for spring semester at Bakersfield College. Just two weeks to go before we reach final exams week. The William M. Thomas Planetarium gave its

Our evening planet lineup now includes only Jupiter, as Saturn fades in the evening twilight. Jupiter will be the first starlike thing you see after the sun sets. It will

The recent failure of the Peregrine lander last week due to a fuel leak in the lander shows that our return to the moon is not going to be as

Bakersfield College and the William M. Thomas Planetarium are on winter break (evening shows resume again in mid-February). As I write this, though, I wonder if the weather is ever

Were now in finals week at Bakersfield College and the last evening show of the fall season at the William M. Thomas Planetarium — "Season of Light" — will play

The two giant planets of the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, continue to reign in the evening sky. At sunset, Saturn is already at its highest point in the south

Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour? Our digital devices take care of it automatically, but there are probably still the microwave and stove clocks to adjust.

On Thursday, the ever-popular "Black Holes" show returns to the William M. Thomas Planetarium. It describes the two basic types of black holes: the stellar-mass ones that form when very