One of the Earliest Stars Found
Astronomers from the Australian National University think they've found one of the earliest stars to have formed in the Universe.…
Podcast: Binary Wolf-Rayet Stars
Wolf-Rayet stars are big, violent and living on borrowed time. Put two of these stars destined to explode as supernovae…
Testing New Technologies… In Space
When it comes to using advanced technology, NASA sometimes faces a self-defeating loop: they can't take the risk of flying…
Torino Scale Revised
Astronomers searching for potentially destructive Earth-crossing asteroids have revised the scale they use to communicate the risk of impact to…
Sedna Untouched for Millions of Years
Most objects in the Solar System have been resurfaced by collisions with asteroids, smaller rocks and comets. But Sedna, on…
Audio: Binary Wolf-Rayet Stars
Wolf-Rayet stars are big, violent and living on borrowed time. Put two of these stars destined to explode as supernovae…
Book Review: Stargazing with a Telescope
Are you liking astronomy but feeling unsure about how to take that first step? Have a friend showing a spark…
Audio: Dark Energy Stars
Black holes... you know. Cosmic singularities that can contain the mass of billions of stars like our Sun. Where the…
Is There a “Fountain of Youth” in the Galactic Core?
The Milky Way - like all spiral galaxies - swings gracefully around a central super-massive black hole (SMBH). Astronomers have…
NASA May Silence Voyagers on April 15
Today NASA has 55 active mission control teams monitoring ongoing spacecraft and station missions - 13 associated with missions extended…