Exoplanet With Extreme Temperature Swings
This animation shows a computer simulation of the planet HD 80606b from an observer located at a point in space lying between the Earth...
An EPIC View From a Million Miles Out in Space of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow...
The ‘Face’ of Jupiter
JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed to bring a chuckle. This image, processed by citizen...
NASA to announce new details on Unprecedented Mission to "Touch the Sun"
NASA is set to release new details this week about the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun." The mission, Solar Probe...
Green Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is Flying over Earth's North Pole this Weekend
Green comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is flying over Earth's North Pole this weekend where sky watchers can find it all night long not...
Watch four Alien Worlds orbit a distant Star
In 2008, scientists discovered three planetary companions circling within a dusty disk that surrounds the star, just as the nine planets...
Something in Space is killing off Entire Galaxies
Out there in the depths of space there are entire galaxies being killed off in a manner that is utterly perplexing scientists. It's the...
Solar Ballet on the Sun
Sometimes, the Sun itself seems to dance. NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged some impressive eruptions from...
Our Solar System is Moving into a Potentially Dangerous Interstellar Energy Cloud
Our solar system is moving into a potentially dangerous and destabilizing interstellar energy cloud. The solar system is travelling...
Moon, Saturn and the Supergiant Star Antares form an Attractive Celestial Triangle
Get up before dawn to catch the moon with the bright star Antares and the golden planet Saturn. Moon and Saturn form a large celestial...
Our Solar System as You've Never Seen it Before - What it Would Look Like if Planets Were Closer
Former NASA art director Ron Miller created images of it would look like from Earth if planets replaced moon. Astonishing images show...
Newfound Alien World / 'Hot Jupiter' Detected around Nearby Variable Star
Astronomers have detected a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet orbiting a nearby T Tauri star known as TAP 26. The newly detected alien world,...
Largest Known Solar System Discovered
Astronomers have found the largest known solar system, linking together a star and what was thought to be a free-floating 'lonely planet'...
Spectacular Eruption - Solar Event News Archives 2010-2017
On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare (white flash in the first image) with a spectacular coronal mass...
Michio Kaku: Mysterious Star In Space Could Be Alien Megastructure
Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku believes that the mysterious dimming of a star located 1,480 light years away from Earth could be...