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January 5, 2016

Stargazers' delight: All five visible planets set to showcase

From Jan. 20 to Feb. 20, the five visible planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be simultaneously visible in the predawn and dawn sky.

January 5, 2016

Stunning Hubble image shows two galaxies merging

The Hubble space telescope has captured an incredible image of two galaxies merging.

December 25, 2015

Can you hear me now? British astronaut dials wrong number from space

British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted an apology on Christmas Day from the International Space Station after calling a wrong number.

December 17, 2015

NASA's Hubble telescope spots rare exploding supernova

A supernova that exploded some 10 billion years ago has been captured by Hubble Space Telescope.

December 15, 2015

Citizen scientists name planet in global contest

He’s a planet named Thestias, he resides in a galaxy far, far FAR away, and citizen scientist astronomers can add naming him to their bragging rights.

December 10, 2015

Europe launches satellite that will map 1 billion stars, hunt for new planets

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch a satellite that will produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of our part of the Milky Way.

December 10, 2015

Swedish castle museum to recover missing rare astronomical astrolabe made in 1590

A rare 16th-century scientific artifact used in astronomical measurements that has been missing from a Swedish museum for a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the London-based Art Loss Register says.

December 3, 2015

Hubble spots faintest galaxy from early universe

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescope have found what they believe is the faintest object ever seen in the early universe, a galaxy that existed 13.8 billion years ago or about 400 million years after the big bang.

November 23, 2015

Mars will become a ringed planet when Phobos dies

Mars’ doomed moon Phobos may leave its parent planet a parting gift. A new study shows the moon is likely to break apart before it hits the atmosphere, creating a debris ring that will encircle Mars for millions of years.

November 20, 2015

Stars in distant galaxies found to have a pulse

This behavior has been seen in our own Milky Way but it has been difficult to document in distant galaxies. Now, a team of researchers from Harvard and Yale have for the first time show that stars that are located tens of millions of light years away have a heartbeat if you will.