Without a telescope, the Lagoon Nebula is faintly visible with the naked eye as a unremarkable patch of gray in the heart of the Milky Way. Observed up close with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, it looks slightly
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The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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We are not at war with an alien race from the center of the Milky Way, but if we were, this is exactly what we would want it to look like. Snapped at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory --
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In a mission to learn more about the sun's inner workings, NASA is planning to launch a specially shielded spacecraft in 2018 that will plunge into the solar atmosphere. The car-sized Solar Probe Plus will explore an area just 4 million miles from the star's surface,
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At the heart of M87, the Virgo A galaxy, is one of the biggest black holes ever seen - about 6 billion times more massive than the sun. Scientists working with the Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Array have compiled this nice new image of its insatiable appetite
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This spooky image of a tiny nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502 was recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope, but perhaps even more eerie than the wispy, ghost-like appearance
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If we ever decide to colonize Mars, it might be fairly simple to grow crops in that red soil, according to a
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A special property of Earth's organic molecules could be caused by supernovae, a new study says - suggesting that life's building blocks were created not on Earth, but elsewhere
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He has been crated up and shipped to Kennedy Space Center. At the Space Station Processing Facility there, he is going to be carefully packed into his SLEEPR -- the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut.
At over 220 kilograms, the
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It's been a rough week troubleshooting the ISS, but the third time is a charm; today's emergency spacewalk to replace the faulty cooling system aboard the International Space Station went
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The science world is upside down this morning. First North Korea announces it has cracked the nut on nuclear fusion. Now Jupiter has
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For about $280, you can make your very own space-age spy tech, following an MIT professor's instructions.
It can
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In 2016, NASA and the European Space Agency will launch the first-ever joint U.S./Euro mission to Mars, and Tuesday they unveiled exactly what kind of toys the ExoMars Trace
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A badly damaged and unmanned asteroid explorer will make its belated return to Earth this weekend, releasing a sample capsule in the remote South Australian desert.
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa was launched by the Institute of Space
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America may have eighty-sixed its moon base ambitions, but the Japanese have no plans to let perfectly good lunar real estate go to waste. An ambitious $2.2 billion project in the works at JAXA, the Japanese space agency, plans to put humanoid robots on the moon by 2015, and now official backing
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It may not look like much, but NASA's next candidate to touch down on Mars has taken its first steps toward its larger ambition of exploring the Martian landscape in 2012.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had a big week last week, mounting the Remote Sensing Mast and an array
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Using a little astrophysical magic and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Telescope in northern Chile, astronomers at Durham University in England captured the best view yet of individual star nurseries in a galaxy a full 10 billion light-years from Earth. And all they had to do was
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In an acknowledgement that the private space industry just might have something going for it, NASA is setting aside $30 million to buy information gleaned from
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Something is consuming hydrogen and organic molecules on Saturn's moon Titan, and the recipe matches astrobiologists' theories about possible methane-based life. Granted, there may be other chemical explanations -- it's just that no one knows what they are
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Scientists are on the hunt for exo-Earths, distant cousins of our planet that are just the right distance from their
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NASA's bold repair mission for the Hubble Space Telescope has inspired engineers to tackle another
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There?s art and then there?s science, but every now and then the two cross paths
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This morning an odd story surfaced and began orbiting the Web: Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic signed '80s rock heartthrobs (now aging '80s rock heartthrobs) Spandau
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The European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has reached deep into a previously
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The newly discovered exoplanet could soon lead to more likely candidates for habitable planets
Astronomers
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Everyone loves a good road movie, whether it's Hope and Crosby or Fonda and Hopper. But
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Scientists have announced the possible discovery of dark matter after a week of rumors
After
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Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has successfully lifted off from Baikonur Space Center on
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Some rivalries die hard. Ham the American chimpanzee stirred up some Cold War ire when
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The head of Russia's space agency says such a mission would save lives, but U.S. astronomers strongly differ
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