New Hubble Picture Gives First Peek Inside Crab Nebula

Astronomers at last have a clear glimpse of the eye of a massive celestial storm.

Chemical trail on Saturn's Moon Titan may be key to prebiotic conditions

Scientists have uncovered a chemical trail that suggests prebiotic conditions may exist on Saturn's largest moon Titan. This moon features terrain with Earthlike attributes.

China finished the world's largest single-aperture telescope

The 500-meter dish will now listen out for signs of extra-terrestrial life.

China's long march to the Moon began with a bang this weekend

The Asian country has embarked upon a long-term plan to colonize the Moon. The Long March 7 rocket has lifted off on Saturday from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.

Ancient Mars could have been more like Earth than we thought

The Curiosity Rover discovered manganese oxides on the red planet. The seemingly simple find actually has mind-boggling implications: ancient Mars could have been a lot more like Earth than we thought.

Fly Straight Into One of the Rarest Galaxies Hubble Has Ever Spotted

The galaxy we're zooming in is LEDA 36252. It's a tadpole galaxy 82 million lightyears away that has been steadily turning out new stars at an incredible rate for billions of years.

Four plants grown in Mars-like soil are officially declared edible

Wageningen University scientists determined four of the crops they cultivated in Mars-like soil are in fact edible.

This Is Earth, Mars and Pluto as Seen From the Sun's Far Side

While orbiting the sun, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has taken a look back at Earth, to also find Mars and Pluto in shot.

Hubble confirms new dark spot on Neptune

New images confirm the presence of a dark vortex on Neptune. Though similar features were seen during the Voyager 2 flyby of NASA

Astronomers just switched on a device that lets them observe the Milky Way's black hole

Astronomers working with the European Space Agency's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have just announced that a black hole-observing device called GRAVITY is now fully operational and it's has already provided one accurate measurement.

It Looks Like Pluto Has a Liquid Water Ocean

A modeling paper published this week in Geophysical Research Letters offers a simple but fascinating explanation: partial freezing within a subsurface, liquid water ocean.

The universe is crowded with black holes, astronomers predict

Astronomers have presented one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predict hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave detectors.

Antimatter, annihilation and a universe that shouldn't exist

Antimatter is at the heart of one of the great mysteries in modern physics — why our universe has stuff in it.

Earth Has An Almost-Moon

Earth has a new dance partner, a quasi-moon named 2016 H03.

Kickstarter Shines a Light on Tabby's Star

To find out what's going on around the weirdest star in the galaxy, astronomers are turning to crowdfunding.