Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting develo
On January 20th the European Space Agency woke its Rosetta probe after two-and-a-half years in hiber
More than 3,000 astronomers assembled last week for the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical S
Two recently found supernovae are much farther away and brighter than almost any star explosion ever
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite that went into hibernation in 2011 has been brough
Ten-year-old Nathan Gray of Nova Scotia officially becomes the youngest person ever to identify a ne
Don't miss viewing Comet ISON, visible in the east before dawn, with a tail now as long as the bowl
India aims to become the fourth entity to send a mission to Mars with its launch of the Mars Orbiter
At a symposium on the danger of asteroid impacts, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart said it's time
Two of the three known planets around the star Kepler 56 orbit their host out of line with the star'
Voyager 1's own record of the plasma vibrations in its vicinity conclusively show that it has reache
The distributed computing project Einstein@Home uses home computers to search through years of teles
NASA's WISE satellite surveyed the universe before being mothballed in 2011. Now it's being resurrec
Although the Kepler space telescope's stabilization system is beyond repair, it has produced reams o
The only issue related to the flip of the sun's magnetic field is that it corresponds with the peak
Since it landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, the Curiosity rover has done photography, geology and roa
A huge cloud of plasma south of our galactic black hole could be evidence of a past feeding frenzy.
Theory said that muon neutrinos could transform into electron neutrinos. A neutrino detector confirm
The black hole in galaxy NGC 1277 is way more massive than usual. Astronomers hypothesize it was eje
The star WX UMa went from 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to 30,000 degrees F in less than three minutes. C
A reaction between two common molecules occurs much faster at frosty interstellar temperatures than
