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ESO’s Very Large Telescope celebrates 15 years of success
This new picture celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope – it is fifteen years since the first light on the first of its four Unit Telescopes, on 25 May 1998.
May 23, 2013
Rare, massive merging of two faraway galaxies
A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory.
May 22, 2013
M5-class solar flare on May 22
The flare produced a beautiful coronal mass ejection, or CME, which was not Earth-directed but could deliver a glancing blow in the next few days.
May 22, 2013
Mars bombarded by more than 200 space rocks per year
That might seem like a lot, but new results suggest Mars gets pummeled by space rocks less frequently than previously thought.
May 17, 2013
How NASA might revive the Kepler planet-hunter
Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
May 16, 2013
Planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft in trouble
It went into safe mode on Tuesday, May 14 after the #4 reaction wheel, needed to orient the spacecraft, would not spin.
May 16, 2013
Video: May 10 ring of fire annular solar eclipse
Beautiful video of ring of fire eclipse by astrophotographer Colin Legg, who used three cameras along the ecliptic path in western Australia.
May 15, 2013
Orion’s hidden fiery ribbon
This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky.
May 15, 2013
Here’s how NYC would look under the skies of other worlds
"I felt that if I could show people what New York City looked like on other planets, I'd give people a sense of how lucky we are to be living on Earth."
May 15, 2013
MIGHTI Slated for Launch on ICON Mission
A instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a satellite mission that NASA has selected to move forward into development.
May 15, 2013
