A powerful Proton K rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Tuesday night, carrying a Russian Express-AM2 communications…
It's for people. That's why we explore space, push ourselves to the next level, and continually strive forward. Machines may…
After a long life, most sun-like stars grow into red giants once they've depleted most of their hydrogen fuel. The…
Galaxies are built up over time through a series of collisions with other galaxies. Each time this happens, clouds of…
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this image of the Medusa Fossae Region on the Red Planet. This…
Some current models of galaxy formation predict that large spirals such as the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy should have…
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! This week will bring some excitement as asteroid Pallas flies through the galaxy fields of Virgo and…
The astronauts on board the International Space Station spent a few hours walking around in space today. They installed new…
A team of European astronomers has found some unusual objects in the central part of our galaxy which are emitting…
This is a satellite photograph of two huge sandy regions in the Fezzan region of Southwest Libya, near the border…