Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn positioned between it and...
Comets are the big “question marks” of observational astronomy. Some, such as Comet Hyakutake and the Great Daylight Comet of 1910*present themselves...
This lovely image of the Moon with fireworks exploding nearby in the sky was taken by astrophotgrapher Giuseppe Petricca over the weekend. “In Pisa,...
While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics (and it’s said that at the...
Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific inquiries of our time. Europe...
Photographer and storm chaser Mike Olbinski has captured some incredible storm footage over the years (such as this apocalyptic haboob in Arizona in...
We knew it was coming, but it is still sad to see the end of a mission. Controllers for the Herschel space telescope sent finals command today to put...
More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that find wasn’t enough, another research group is...
In a few generations of robotics, we’ll see mighty machines able to fully construct themselves and operate from the surface of asteroids — providing...
Ten months after her breathtaking touchdown on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover is nearly set to embark on an epic drive like no other in space...
Discovered “by accident” by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful — yet invisible — by-product of...
Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet being born some 176 light-years away from Earth. It’s...
Chris Lewicki is the President and Chief Engineer for one of the most pioneering and audacious companies in the world today. Planetary Resources was...
You’ve probably never before seen an image like the one above. That’s because it is the first time something like this has ever been created, and it...
It could work, say researchers from the University of New Hampshire and*the Southwest Research Institute. One of the inherent dangers of space travel...