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Newly discovered most luminous galaxy
Galaxy W2246-0526 shines with the intensity of more than 300 trillion suns. Its central black hole stirs up gas across the entire galaxy.
January 18, 2016
SpaceX deploys satellite, crashes rocket
A foggy lift-off - successful deployment of Jason 3 satellite - and spectacular crash at attempted sea landing for SpaceX yesterday. Spectacular video of crash, here.
January 18, 2016
Follow a live planet hunt at Proxima Centauri
ESO invites you to follow its Pale Red Dot campaign, the hunt for an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting the next-nearest star.
January 16, 2016
Newest image of possible Pluto ice volcano
Check out this highest-resolution color view of a possible cryovolcano spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015
January 15, 2016
NASA says yes to Dream Chaser
As early as 2019, Dream Chaser become the first winged vehicle to fly into orbit since NASA retired the space shuttles in 2011.
January 15, 2016
Watch ISS spacewalk live today
Two International Space Station (ISS) astronauts will perform the first spacewalk of the year on Friday. NASA TV will air the spacewalk live. Coverage starts at 6:30 a.m., with spacewalk scheduled to begin at 7:55 a.m.
January 15, 2016
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
January 14, 2016
How to see Comet Catalina
Hints on how to perceive the comet's gradual motion across the sky as it sweeps closest - but not too close - around January 17.
January 14, 2016
Ancient gas cloud relic of first stars?
Astronomers see this cloud just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. It has a tiny percentage of heavy elements, those forged in subsequent generations of stars.
January 14, 2016
Galaxy quakes in our Milky Way
Astronomers say they can use "galactoseismology" - the study of ripples in a galaxy's disk - to map the interior structure of galaxies and learn about dark matter.
January 13, 2016
