A small asteroid will pass close to Earth on Sunday, it will pass at a distance of about 25,000 miles. In terms of the scale of the solar system this…

(NASA) – If you remember the images of the stardust capsule as it tumbled to Earth back in 2006, its precious cargo of  Aerogel having hopefully captured tiny bits of…

(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the first time have spotted a star system that later produced an unusual supernova explosion of a white dwarf, the stripped-down…

(NASA) – Thanks to NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system. The size of…

(NASA) – Astronomers routinely use the crisp view of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study all kinds of intricate details in galaxy clusters. By now you would think they’ve seen…

(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…

  A free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander was conducted April 30 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center using its recently installed autonomous landing and…

We now have a new neighbor only 7.2 light years away. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest “brown…