Space News

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureaux at the Links Through Space blog.

"What we observe in this galaxy is very much like a massive ocean wave barreling toward shore until it interacts with the shallows, causing it to lose momentum and dump all of its water and sand on the beach," said...

In what sounds like the opening chapter of a science-fiction bestseller, a mysterious "pinging" noise has been detected coming from the sea floor of Canada's most remote northern territory. The sound has been heard throu...

I've been an astronomer all my life, and I love taking my 'scope out to observe the sky. I have a 20 cm Celestron C8 S-GT, which is small enough to use easily but big enough to catch nice views of planets and deep-sky ob...

There are very few bright stars in the southern evening skies this week, but on clear, moonless evenings, skywatchers should look for a fishy constellation.

There was a time when the Northwest Passage was a sort of maritime Holy Grail, a route so desired and sought after, but so elusive....

The eerie glow of a dead star, which exploded long ago as a supernova, reveals itself in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula....

Is our universe just an incredibly complex computer simulation? Or is it just one of many universes, each brought into existence by the choices we make? In this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates...