Astronomy

Today is the 85th anniversary of our discovery of the icy dwarf planet Pluto, and to celebrate, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has...

The closest star to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years from our Sun. Scientists have just discovered that 70,000...

The Aurora Borealis, affectionately known as the Northern Lights, put on a spectacular show over the Northumberland coast on Monday...

The Dawn mission has been discovering more and more about Ceres in recent months, and now the spacecraft has taken the sharpest images...

Amateur astronomers have reported sightings of strange, plume-like features on Mars on two separate occasions in 2012, and ESA...

Astronomers have captured close-up images of the birth of a multiple-star solar system for the first time. Although its creation is...

Back in 2009, astronomers inferred the existence of a small galaxy composed almost entirely of dark matter based on ripples of...

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured an amazing picture of the Universe smiling down at Earth. The image depicts a galaxy cluster...

At first, it looks like every other video of an aurora over the city lights at night. But upon closer examination, this NASA video...

The strange white spot on dwarf planet Ceres has been a subject of inquiry for a long time now, but as it turns out, the enigma is...

New Horizons has sent back the first image of the elusive Pluto since NASA began its groundbreaking mission. Although the images are...

Today, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured breathtaking images of a galaxy being slowly pulled apart while it merges with...

Could there be a giant ring system that's 200 times the size of Saturn's famous rings? University of Rochester’s Eric Mamajek...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on its goal of reaching Ceres, and in the process of doing so, it has just produced some of the...

A newly unveiled telescope in Chile may be revolutionary in discovering relatively small alien planets that are currently orbiting...

Realistic animation of space is all the rage these days, but even so, this beautiful video stands out among the pack. Visual effects...

In honor of the Hubble telescope's 25th anniversary, scientists have recreated the iconic image of the Pillars of Creation. Twenty...

After a decade of groundbreaking research, NASA's probe MESSENGER will finish its mission in 2015. It will do one last thruster boost...

Mars rover Opportunity has had a long and fruitful life, as it has been studying the Red Planet for over a decade now. After all those...

Almost exactly a year after NASA found evidence of water vapor on Europa, researchers from several different projects are claiming...