Today a meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region and exploded with a flash and boom that shattered…
Update 2/15/13 - Asteroid 2012 DA14 has safely passed Earth and is now moving away from us. The asteroid close…
The number of potentially habitable exoplanets will be impacted A team of astronomers from Penn State led by Ravi Kumar…
The Kepler spacecraft, NASA's lead planet finder has returned to operations and is once again planet hunting. After a "wheel…
The Kepler observatory has stopped it's science data operations due to concern about a second reaction wheel issue. Reaction wheels…
NASA Telescope Observes How Sun Stores and Releases Energy WASHINGTON -- A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first…
The U.S. Presidential inauguration will get a special show Monday as the Moon and Jupiter will appear very close in…
This figure shows an actual image of a sunset on Earth compared to artistic representations for the best candidates of…
(Source NASA) - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…
NGC 6872 and IC 4970 are two galaxies in the process of merging. IC 4970 is the small galaxy at…