NASA has confirmed this is a real photo. This frog made its giant leap for frogkind during the launch of NASA's LADEE moon craft on September 6.

“In galaxy disks, the scars of a rough childhood, and adolescent blemishes, all smooth away with time.” - Curtis Struck, Iowa State Astronomer

Water found in ancient moon rocks might have actually originated from the proto-Earth and even survived the moon-forming event.

Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy has discovered a new comet. The new Comet Lovejoy will occupy the same part of the sky as Comet ISON by November 2013.

When closest to the sun, Phaethon may become so hot that rocks on the surface crack and crumble to dust. This makes Phaethon a "rock comet."

As the line of sunsets swept westward yesterday, people around the globe thrilled to the sight of the moon and Venus in their twilight sky. See their photos!

“If one of these objects was found orbiting a star, there is a good chance that it would be called a planet.”

Astronomers have used ESO's New Technology Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our galaxy. They have found that butterfly-shaped members of this cosmic family tend to be mysteriously aligned — a surprising result given their different histories and varied properties.

Cassini spacecraft images show the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. On Saturn, not only are storms much bigger than on Earth, they're far more violent, with vertical winds of more than 300 miles per hour.

"For decades people have known that the solar cycle depends on the poleward flow or material, changing the magnetic fields from one cycle to the next. We mapped out what we believed to be the flow pattern in the 1990s, but the results didn't quite make sense." - Philip Scherrer