Astronomers discovered a new asteroid, four days after it made a near miss of the Earth. The object, now called…
Image credit: USNO Astronomers from several US observatories announced that they have successfully merged the light from six independent telescopes…
Image credit: NASA NASA and the German Center for Air and Space Flight successfully launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate…
Image credit: ESO Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarf stars that revolve around each other at a distance…
Astronomers working with the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array have found a pulsar that is much younger than previously…
The weather in Florida is looking good for Tuesday morning's landing of the space shuttle Columbia. Assuming everything goes as…
The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts landed safely Tuesday morning after completing their mission to upgrade…
Image credit: NASA Locating the faint evidence of planets circling distant stars used to require high performance optics, like those…
After five days of repairs, the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope was released from the space shuttle Columbia. Over the…
Image credit: Hubble Even though the Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission while it's upgraded, older images are still…