NASA'S Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best...
Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
Variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Transit of Venus wows astronomers worldwide
Transit of Venus as seen from Svalbard
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Solar plane on historic intercontinental flight
A solar plane with a Swiss pilot at the controls flew across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain into Moroccan...
Venus' Transit and the Search for Other Worlds
The first recorded transit of Venus: William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an astronomer,...
Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a...
NASA to Use Rare Venus Transit as Planet-Hunting Exercise
The planet Venus will make a rare transit across the face of the Sun on June 5. The phenomenon will not occur again for more than a century. The U.S. space agency, NASA, plans to use the Venus transit to fine-tune some of its deep-space planet-...
NASA'S Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision
NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
