Black Hole Gets Kicked Out of Galaxy
[/caption] Supermassive black holes are thought to lie at the center of most large galaxies. But off in a distant…
Young Stars Blast a Hole in Space
[/caption] There is a black patch of space in NGC 1999, and for years astronomers have thought it was just…
Universe Puzzle No. 13
How did you do in last week's Universe Puzzle? Did you figure out an answer, but didn't write up your…
Newton’s Apple Tree to Defy Gravity on Upcoming Shuttle Mission
[/caption] As the space shuttle crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center for Thursday's scheduled launch of the STS-132 mission, already…
Team Finds Most-Distant Galaxy Cluster Ever Seen
[/caption] Like a location from Star Wars, this galaxy cluster is far, far away and with origins a long, long…
Latest Mars Avalanche Likely Triggered by Impact Event
[/caption] The HiRISE team from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a few avalanches on Mars, some actually while in…
Incredible! Cassini as Houdini Cuts Titan in Half
[/caption] There's nothing up the sleeves of the Cassini imaging team in this image; it is real! Is the moon…
This Week In Space With Miles O’Brien
The latest from Spaceflightnow.com's TWIS team: Counting down to the last scheduled launch of shuttle Atlantis, a space robot race…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Bringing The Planetology Home
We keep finding all these exoplanets. Our detection methods still only pick out the bigger ones, but we're getting better…
Final Round of Apollo 13 Questions Answered by Jerry Woodfill
Our readers had questions about our series "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13," and NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill has graciously…