Plans for the mega-telescope named European Extremely Large telescope, or E-ELT, Has taken a large step closer to becoming reality Monday, June 11th. The Plans were approved by the governing council of the European Southern Observatory…

Details of Jupiter’s smallest known moon have been unveiled. The moon, S/2012  J 2, was discovered in September 2010 along with one other moon called S/2010 J1.. The moon has a diameter of about 1.2…

China will launch its first manned mission to its orbiting space laboratory in mid-June, according to state media reports and the country’s human spaceflight agency. They will be using a March…

WASHINGTON — During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds…

NASA is canceling work on the space telescope designed to find black holes through x-ray light. The decision has come from the rising cost of the project, the space agency…

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot…

WASHINGTON — The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The objects…

Today, June 5th, 2012, At 22:09 UTC, we will be able to see the planet Venus as a small dark dot moving  across the face o the sun. It will…