Space News

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"Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters.

To Drill or not to Drill? That's the momentous question posed by the international team of scientists and engineers who commanded NASA's SUV sized Curiosity rover to reach out with her high tech robotic arm this weekend ...

Australians will see the moon cover about 65 percent of the sun's disk in a partial solar eclipse. A small part of Antarctica, however, will witness an annular eclipse, in which a spectacular "ring of fire" blazes in the...

A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind -- as frosty as Earth's North Pole -- has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and ...

The dream of a supersonic passenger airplane lives on. NASA is currently researching new designs for supersonic aircraft, and the space agency is now focusing on reducing the strength of the sonic booms, the bane of supe...

It's a little bit weird to think that sometimes, when you look at the sky, it looks like it's looking back. That shot was taken by astrophotographer (and friend of the BA blog) Göran Strand. It shows an amazing display ...