As Sun Flares Up, Sky Watchers Check Microphones The sun is emerging from a two-year period of quiet, and that's good news to amateur radio astronomers like Thomas Ashcraft. He records the sounds ...

They stretch 50 miles into Earth’s upper atmosphere. They shower the night sky with shimmering bursts of light. They emit a crackling “ping” over radio. And because they’re so fast ...

A New Mexico astronomer is hoping you can help solve a mystery.He caught a spectacular fireball on video and he said you can help him track down what's left of it.Thomas Ashcraft caught a cosmic ...

"I have photos predating discovery, but I did not appreciate their significance until Hank pointed them out in video," another citizen scientist and TLE observer, Thomas Ashcraft, who was not ...

Amateur radio astronomer and citizen scientist Thomas Ashcraft, who is based in New Mexico, managed to capture a rare audio recording of the radio burst slamming into Earth. The eerie sound is ...