Space News

"Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time" is an award-winning IMAX Super Short film. In less than 3 minutes you can explore 10 billion years of cosmic history as you fly through one of Hubble's iconic images, the Hubble D...

A new satellite map from Google and Digital Globe shows just-released satellite imagery of the damage from the tornado that struck the area of Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013. It's been called one of the most powerful an...

Sometimes the popular names given to an astronomical object hit the mark of describing its features. Other times.... not so much. Case in point, the Ring Nebula. While the distinctive loop shape and colorful beauty have ...

It's been about three months since that infamous meteor broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia. In that time, there's been a lot of conversation about how we can better protect ourselves against these space rocks with a poten...

This Saturday will mark 15 years that the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) first opened its eyes on the Universe, and ESO is celebrating its first-light anniversary with a beautiful and intrigui...

Even though the spacecraft has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant necessary to observe the infrared energy of the distant Universe, data collected by ESA's Herschel space observatory are still helping unravel ...