Artist’s concept of Rosetta shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Sept. 30, 2016. / Credits: ESA/ATG medialab...
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This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the...
Credits: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This image, taken by...
09.23.2016 In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t...
09.22.2016 Since its launch on Sept. 22, 2006, Hinode, a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
Since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, the planet’s appearance has changed greatly. This view shows Saturn’s...
The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one...
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by...
By Lina Tran / 09.12.2016 The majestic auroras have captivated humans for thousands of years, but their...
As part of the Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA plans to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid...
Artist’s impression of dark matter clumps around a Milky Way-like galaxy. The discovery of two massive holes...
The red box clearly shows where the lander is hiding. ESA By Dr. Monica Grady / 09.06.2016...
09.08.2016 NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral...
The story of oceans is the story of life. Oceans define our home planet, covering the majority...
Artist’s impression of the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri. ESO/M. Kornmesserc By Dr....
A young star over 30 times more massive than the Sun could help us understand how the...
08.19.2016 Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...
Luis Argerich / Flickr By Dr. Christopher Conselice / 08.11.2016 Professor of Astrophysics University of Nottingham Even...
An artist’s concept of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. / NASA 08.05.2016 Launched five years ago on Aug....
An outburst of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in August 2009 in this time-lapse image. Stargazers...
The Ancient Greeks were the driving force behind the development of western astronomy and science, their philosophers...
07.29.2016 Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno...
07.25.2016 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu...
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s...
Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to...
Artist’s concept of the Juno mission to Jupiter. By Dr. Leigh Fletcher / 06.30.2016 Royal Society Senior...
This scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks...
An international team of astronomers have detected glowing oxygen in a distant galaxy seen just 700 million...
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date. It makes a...
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. / NASA,...