Astronomy
Closest Youngest Star Found
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley have discovered the nearest and youngest star with a visible disk of dust…
Winking Star Turns Out to Be a Binary System
Astronomers have spent the last five years trying to explain a strange star called KH 15D, which winks on an…
Watch the Rosetta Launch Live
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission is now on the launch pad, and it should be heading up into space…
Scientists Watch an Explosion on a Neutron Star
Canadian and NASA scientists have captured details of swirling gas as it hovers above the surface of a neutron star.…
New Kuiper Object Rivals Pluto
Astronomers from Caltech and Yale University have discovered a distant object that could be nearly as large as Pluto. The…
Interstellar Cloud of Gas is a Natural Lens
Dr. Hayley Bignall, an astronomer from the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe (JIVE), believes that interstellar…
Largest Mirror in Space Under Development
Construction of the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory is well underway, and engineers recently completed a significant part of…
Venus Blazes Beside the Moon
If you have clear skies on the early evening of Monday, February 23, get outside and look to the West…
New Galaxy Beats Distance Record
An international team of astronomers have found what could be the most distant galaxy ever discovered. Located 13 billion light-years…
Oldest Quasars Give Clues About Cosmic Dark Age
A new theory from University of Arizona researcher Xiaohui Fan predicts that the supermassive black holes which form the core…