Keck Can Turn Down Starlight to See Planetary Disks
The massive Keck Observatory at the top of Hawaii's Mauna Kea has learned a new trick: it can block the…
Vivid View of Spongy Hyperion
Cassini made its first flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion last week, and took this amazing photograph. The spacecraft got within…
Was There a Slushball Earth?
With the "Snowball Earth" hypothesis, scientists have proposed that our planet was once encased under a thick layer of ice…
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope took this incredible image of galaxy NGC 1350, which is located 85 million…
Astrophoto: Antares-Rho Ophiuchus by Thomas Davis
Here's an amazing picture of the Antares-Rho Ophiuchus region of the Milky Way taken by Thomas Davis from his home…
Did a Supernova Kill the Mammoths?
A supernova that exploded 41,000 years ago might have led to the extinction of mammoths, according to researchers at Berkeley…
Distant Galaxy is Too Massive For Current Theories
The latest images released from the Hubble Space Telescope pinpoint an enormous galaxy located almost 13 billion light-years away -…
Astrophoto: NGC 253
Paul Mayo captured this photograph of NGC 253 from his backyard observatory in Newcastle Australia. Paul used a Canon EOS…
New Horizons Arrives at Cape Canaveral
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has arrived at Florida's Cape Canaveral to be prepared for launch. If all goes well, New…
SMART-1’s Mission Extended a Year
ESA engineers have figured out how to extend the life of SMART-1's ion engine, giving the mission more time to…