Supermassive Black Hole Shows Strange Gas Movements
Sometimes it takes a second look -- or even more -- at an astronomical object to understand what's going on.…
How to Find Your Way Around the Milky Way This Summer
Look east on a dark June night and you'll get a face full of stars. Billions of them. With the moon now…
Boom! Get Up Close To Yesterday’s Mountaintop Explosion For Astronomy
Talk about starting your astronomy work with a bang! Yesterday's controlled explosion on the top of Cerro Armazones marked the start…
Mountains Soar Above the Appalachians in this Dramatic NASA Photo
Except these are mountains made of water, not rock! Taken from an altitude of 65,000 feet, the image above shows enormous…
Powerful Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies Helped Shape the Early Universe, a New Study Suggests
Massive galaxies in the early Universe formed stars at a much faster clip than they do today — creating the…
See This Orange Smudge? This Could Be NASA’s Target For The Asteroid Mission
In the center of the image above is an orange smudge. It may not look like much to the untrained…
Poof! Mountain Blows Its Top To Make Way For Huge Telescope
All's clear for a huge telescope to start construction on a mountaintop in Chile! That puff you see is the top…
Video: SpaceX Tests New Steerable ‘Fins’ on the Falcon 9R
Well, this is cool: A new video from SpaceX shows the Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) rocket during a 1,000 meter…
What Will Rosetta’s Comet Look Like? How Artists Over The Years Pictured It
Comets are notoriously hard to predict -- just ask those people on Comet ISON watch late in 2013. So as…
Watch Live: 180th Spacewalk for the International Space Station
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev are working outside at the International Space Station…