A waxing crescent moon is aglow with earthshine in this beautiful night sky photo. [Full Story]
Fire and ice merge in a photo of ash rising from an eruption at Russia's Karymsky volcano, captured by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story]
New images from a NASA spacecraft orbiting Saturn have revealed a view any retro-gamer would love: a second moon with a heat tattoo of the 1980s video game icon Pac-Man. The photos show Saturn’s Pac-Man moons Tethys and Mimas. [Full Story]
The European Southern Observatory has picked up the most powerful blast of matter from a black hole to date, with energy in it is equivalent to 2 trillion times the output of the sun. [Full Story]
An amazing new photo from NASA's Cassini probe orbiting Saturn has sighted a monster storm raging on the ringed planet's north pole. [Full Story]
-- A stunning new night sky photo shows the glowing planet Jupiter rising over the Himalayas. [Full Story]
New images of the "born-again" planetary nebula Abell 30 give a glimpse of what our sun might look like in 5 billion years. [Full Story]
NASA has unveiled astonishingly detailed radar views of a mile-wide asteroid that zipped safely by Earth this month — its closest approach to our planet until the year 2488. [Full Story]
The moon dipped through only part of Earth's shadow Wednesday (Nov. 28) in a penumbral lunar eclipse. See stargazers' photos of the minor lunar eclipse. [Full Story]
A total solar eclipse appears with beautiful halo in this stunning sky photo by photographer Tunc Tezel. Tenzel took this photo from Australia during the total solar eclipse of Nov. 14, 2012. [Full Story]
