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A unique and exotic laboratory about 6,800 light-years from Earth is helping Earth-based astronomers test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in ways not possible until now. And the observations exactly match ...

The lunar eclipse on April 25 was described by astrophotographer Gadi Eidelheit as "the greatest, slightest eclipse I ever saw!" The brief and small eclipse saw just 1.47% of the lunar limb nicked by the dark umbra or sh...

No bodily function is off-limits for Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. In this video, he explains that in space, you need REALLY good barf bags. (...)Read the rest of Barf Bags in Space (35 words) © nancy for Universe ...

From tell-tale evidence, we know that Earth, our Moon and other bodies in our Solar System are constantly barraged with both small meteoroids and larger asteroids or comets. And sometimes - like in the case of seeing met...

Over the past 24 hours, the Sun has erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), sending billions of tons of solar particles into space. While these CMEs are not directed at Earth, they are heading towards Mercury and...

Obtaining an accurate distance between the Sun and the center of our Galaxy remains one of the principal challenges facing astronomers. The ongoing lively debate concerning this distance hinges partly on the nature of du...

If you think that star-formation only has an impact within the confines of a host galaxy, then think again. Thanks to the magic of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are now realizing starburst activity can...

Astronaut pranks are, well, just a part of the job. Often they poke at a sore spot in the astronaut's history, and Charles Duke found himself the subject of a particularly painful one in the 1970s. Duke was in the final ...

Captured on January 15, this narrow-angle Cassini image shows an outer portion of Saturn's A ring on the left and the ropy F ring crossing on the right. The thin black line near the A ring's bright edge is the Keeler Gap...