Space News

Oh, those space robots. They don't always do what we want them to do, but we love them anyway. If you need a fun diversion in your day, a new Tumblr site has arisen to call out the robots who have made mistakes. Called "...

This is just pretty! NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared Telescope -- have combined forces to create this new image of the Small Magellanic Clo...

We warned you it was going to happen, and here's visual proof! In this comet encounter of the extragalactic kind, Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy met each other in the skies above Earth. This great image by Bren...

How disk galaxies form their spiral arms have been puzzling astrophysicists for almost as long as they have been observing them. With time, they have come to two conclusions... either this structure is caused by differen...

The first results from the largest and most complex scientific instrument on board the International Space Station has provided tantalizing hints of nature's best-kept particle secrets, but a definitive signal for dark m...

Here are three images showing large prominences recently lifting off from the Sun's surface. Solar prominences are sheets or arcs of luminous gas emanating from the Sun's surface. They can loop hundreds of thousands of k...

I'm going to refrain from the initial response that comes to mind... actually, no I won't -- they're really, really, really big!!!! Ok, now that that's out of the way check out this graphic by Arecibo astrophysicist Rhys...

In honor of Earth month, NASA has launched a beautiful new interactive image gallery that explores and highlights our latest understanding of Earth science and our changing planet. Included are spectacular images and vis...

On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have taken the highest resolution radio images ever of the expanding supernova remnant at extrem...