For those who saw the Cosmos episode on William Herschel describing telescopes as time machines, here is a clear example…
The Hubble Space Telescope has a new calculation for the huge El Gordo galaxy cluster: 3 million billion times…
Sometimes a strange signal comes from the dark and it takes a while to figure out what that signal means.…
Mars attacks and comes to a night sky near you this month, and the folks at the Virtual Telescope Project…
In a Universe that's expanding apart, isn't it strange that Andromeda is actually drifting towards us? Dr. Thad Szabo from…
Hang onto your space helmets. With a few moves of the mouse, you can now follow the European Rosetta mission…
Talk about turning back time. Three NASA observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer…
April the 15th: In the United States, it’s a date dreaded by many, as the date to file taxes –…
Shining 60 million light-years away all serene-looking is NGC 1316 (left) and a smaller galaxy NGC 1317. This new picture…
Much like how an earthquake can teach us about the interior of the Earth, a starquake shows off certain properties…