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Zoom in on the Seagull Nebula
Start with a broad view of the Milky Way and zoom in on Sirius, the constellation Orion ... then the distant Seagull Nebula - a dramatic star formation region.
September 28, 2012
Planet Nibiru is not real
Nibiru, sometimes called Planet X, is not going to collide with our planet this year - or ever - because it doesn't exist.
September 26, 2012
Deepest-ever view of the universe
Peering deeper into the universe than ever before, the eXtreme Deep Field was assembled using 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations.
September 25, 2012
Hot-gas halo surrounds our Milky Way, scientists say
NASA scientists estimate the mass of the hot-gas halo to be comparable to the mass of all the billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
September 25, 2012
Video: Final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour
Millions glimpsed and photographed Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 21, as it made its final aerial spin over California.
September 22, 2012
Bright meteor or space debris broke up over UK on September 21
The meteor sightings came around 2200 UTC (5 p.m. CDT) on September 21, 2012. The meteor was traveling east to west over U.K. skies. Many saw it!
September 21, 2012
Earth in Mars’ sky
The Mars rover Spirit captured this image on March 8, 2004. It was the first image of our world taken from another planet beyond our Earth-moon system.
September 17, 2012
NGC 7090 is edge-on spiral galaxy, actively forming stars
Because we're looking at it edge-on, we can't see this galaxy's spiral arms. But we can see the flat disk of the galaxy and its bulging mid-section.
September 16, 2012
Astronomers find two planets orbiting stars in Beehive cluster
The planets in the Beehive are the first ever found around sun-like stars in a cluster of stars.
September 16, 2012
How and when did the first planets form in our universe?
At an estimated age of 12.8 billion years, the HIP 11952 exoplanet system is one of the oldest systems known so far.
September 15, 2012
