Using an orbiting radio-astronomy satellite combined with 15 ground-based radio telescopes, astronomers have made the highest-resolution, or most-detailed, astronomical image … More

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is passing the time to play a little ping-pong — not using a traditional ball, but … More

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) telescope has discovered its first comet of 2016. from Planetary Society Blog … More

It’s time for us to go back and catch up with all of the projects, news stories, weird star systems, … More

A huge alien world orbits 600 billion miles (1 trillion kilometers) from its host star, making its planetary system the … More

NASA’s Opportunity rover just keeps on roaming on Mars. As the rover passed the 12th anniversary of its Red Planet … More

Ancient cosmic sound waves (aka baryon acoustic oscillations) shaped the universe we see today. These animations demonstrate how the universe’s … More

Horacio Llorens took to the frigid skies above Tromsø, Norway to ‘dance’ with the Northern Lights on behalf of Red … More