In case you haven't seen it with your own eyes yet, here's a 1024x768 desktop wallpaper of Comet NEAT, which…
An unmanned Soyuz rocket launched a Progress cargo spacecraft towards the International Space Station on Tuesday. It lifted off from…
Quasars are some of the brightest and most distant objects ever observed, and astronomers used to believe they only existed…
NASA has released more detailed requirements for its upcoming mission to Jupiter's icy moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter would…
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to meet up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 10 years. It'll get to…
To celebrate Cassini's arrival at Saturn, the imaging team is going to be releasing a new photograph every day detailing…
Astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found the heaviest star ever seen - 80 times the mass of…
It seems that when an asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, the resulting heat pulse incinerated every dinosaur…
Researchers from Penn State University have developed a computer model that describes the interaction of a binary black hole system;…
It's been a month since NASA launched the Gravity Probe B; an experiment designed to test Einstein's predictions about gravity…