NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star…
Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above. It does…
A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the…
Should be a good show but the brightness of the moon could hinder observations. The beginning of the 2013 shower…
More exoplanets than expected in the first year of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. The first confirmed extrasolar planets, or exoplanets,…
Every eleven years the sun experiences a peak of sun spot activity, we are nearing this peak period now but…
An international group of scientist led by Mikko Toumi, from the University of Hertfordshire, announced the potential discovery of five…
Sweeping majestic clouds in space lit by surrounding stars are normally the creation of artists but this image is real. Looking like…
On Dec. 15, 2011, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured image of Comet Lovejoy approaching the sun. The images and data…