Astronomy

NASA has released 3-D and 2-D interactive maps of the asteroid Vesta, as well as 3-D printer compatible files that allow you to create...

A total lunar eclipse will be visible right before sunrise the morning of April 4, 2015, and it will be the shortest lunar eclipse of...

The International Astronomical Union and the New Horizons team invite everyone to suggest and vote for names for geological features...

Researchers find evidence that stars are perpetually singing songs that no one can hear in the vacuum of space.

NASA's Mars orbiter MAVEN has captured data indicating the presence of an aurora on Mars, similar to Earth's "Northern Lights," but...

NASA's MESSENGER is set to end its four-year mission by taking a kamikaze dive into Mercury's surface on April 30, but until then,...

The "white spots" on Ceres have baffled scientists for months now, but new Dawn images may have finally solved the mystery. In a new...

On January 8 of this year, Cassini captured an image of Saturn's infamous rings in unprecedented detail. The image, which NASA just...

When a partial solar eclipse plunges Britain into darkness on Friday, it will mirror a historical event that occurred on March 16,...

If you haven't visited Loch Ness in Scotland out of fear of Nessie, this breathtaking photograph might change your mind. Tour guide...

We sadly lost contact with Rosetta's Philae lander late last year, shortly after it became the first spacecraft to land directly onto...

Venus may be our closest neighbor, but it is still relatively elusive, mostly as a result of its thick cloud layer that obscures its...

Scientists have observed many "Tatooine-like" star systems with multiple suns over the years, even capturing the birth of one...

After a seven-year journey, NASA has confirmed that Dawn has successfully achieved orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. The spacecraft...

Astronomers recently discovered that Hubble was able to capture four separate images of the same distant supernova. The so-called...

Hubble Mania 2015 has begun! As NASA's version of March Madness, as well as a celebration of Hubble's 25th anniversary in April, the...

Researchers for the Dark Energy Survey were pleasantly surprised when Comet Lovejoy happened to pass through the field of vision of...

February was an exciting month for science, seeing the first pictures of Pluto's small moons, the one-way mission to Mars narrowing...

The mystery of the bright white spot, present on images of Dwarf Planet Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, has deepened with the...

Quasars are extremely distant from us, with the closest quasar detected at 2.44 billion light years away from Earth. But amazingly...