Space

ESO Photo ReleaseESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular resolution and...

There are a few videos that, like certain books or essays, I like to return to every so often as they have the power to initiate a...

The NASA Juno spacecraft was almost blotted out forever when a mission-ending eclipse threatened to cut off its power supply, and the...

NASA scientists have published a “treasure map” of water ice on Mars – and some of it lies just an inch below the surface,...

Scientists working together at the University of Cambridge have released the results from what is the largest-scale study of...

The south pole of Enceladus – one of Saturn’s moons – is strangely unmarked by impact craters from passing meteors and...

Somehow, a planet survived the devastating explosion of a star's death, and the scorching white dwarf star that remains is now...

The second interstellar visitor to our solar system is closing in on the Sun, according to reports from Universe Today. Comet...

The standard features of a planetary system include two things that we know of: 1. A host star, and 2. Planets. That’s it. The...

A black hole has been reaching across galaxies to trigger star formation in a phenomenon unlike anything astronomers have ever seen,...

What if planets orbit a black hole the same way they orbit stars? According to Phys.Org, that is precisely the question that...

When Voyager 2 slipped into interstellar space it marked a new foray into uncharted waters, and the first data that it returned is...

While Richard Branson and Elon Musk battle for primacy as private partners with NASA, the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) – a global...

An international team of scientists has pulled back the curtain to reveal what creates mysterious plasma “spicules” on our Sun,...

It seems like the stuff of science fiction to see huge planets wheeling across the sky, but that’s exactly what amateur astronomer...

Yesterday morning in the Hebei mountains, far removed from the tumult in Hong Kong, a tiny Martian lander plummeted 230 feet, stopping...

Five million years ago the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy ejected a bright blue star – now, it’s 29,000...

If you’re reading this before 12:30 p.m. EST there’s still time to catch an astronomical event that won’t happen again for...

Another manmade spacecraft has “slipped the surly bonds” of the solar system and entered the uncharted abyss of interstellar...

Is it chicken or is it fish? While some of us may never unravel the existential mysteries of Starkist canned tuna, according to early...