If you're an astronomer and you want to escape the Earth's hazy atmosphere, you need a space telescope... right? Not…
The dance of the planets continues as we watch Mercury, Venus and Saturn shuttle around the twilight sky. Mars and…
Now that NASA has committed itself to returning humans to the Moon, they're looking to overcome one of the major…
The Hubble Space Telescope was lucky to watch a jet of dust streaming off of Comet Tempel 1; a prelude…
Workers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab have begun pre-firing one of the 8.4 metre mirror segments…
This satellite view of Istanbul, taken by the ESA's Envisat satellite, was taken using its Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR).…
The European Space Agency's new powerful 35-metre radio antenna in Cebreros, Spain came online earlier this month, to assist communications…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a massive planetary zone forming around the star system TW Hydrae.…
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this photograph of Saturn's moon Pan, embedded in the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring. In…
The most common element in the Universe is hydrogen, and much of that is molecular hydrogen, where two atoms are…