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Hurry! Mercury crater-naming contest ends January 15
Immortalize your favorite artist, composer, or writer! The competition to name five impact craters on Mercury closes on Thursday.
January 13, 2015
NASA’s way cool retro posters for futuristic space travel
Making future travel plans .. with an emphasis on 'future?' Check out these exoplanet travel posters from NASA.
January 13, 2015
SpaceX capsule docks with International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on January 12, bringing needed supplies to the six astronauts aboard.
January 12, 2015
Binary pulsar gives up secrets, then disappears
Scientists measure the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and find the mass of a fast-spinning pulsar -- just before the pulsar disappears.
January 8, 2015
Record-breaking X-ray flare from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
A flare from our galaxy's core 400 times brighter than usual, in September, 2013. Over a year later, a second large flare. Now scientists are trying to explain why.
January 7, 2015
Astronomers find 8 new planets in Goldilocks zone
Two of the newly-discovered planets are the most similar to Earth of any known exoplanets to date.
January 7, 2015
Awesome new project Sounds of the Night
Project Nightflight in Austria has a new web platform, presenting not just astrophotos, but also the sounds they heard while capturing them. It's wonderful.
January 7, 2015
When is the next meteor shower?
No major meteor showers are predicted until the Lyrid shower, peaking on the morning of April 23, 2015. Between now and then ... fireball season!
January 7, 2015
New sharpest-ever view of Andromeda galaxy
The image has a staggering 1.5 billion pixels, so you'd need 600 HD television screens to display it. A piece of the image, and links to a zoomable version, here.
January 6, 2015
Mind-boggling Fermi Bubbles probed via quasar light
Among other discoveries, a team of astronomers found that the core of our Milky Way galaxy drives a wind at 2 million miles per hour.
January 6, 2015
