Latest articles by Clara Moskowitz
Scientists will be meeting Thursday (Aug. 1) and Friday (Aug. 2) to form a game plan for observing what could be the "comet of the century," comet ISON, due to pass close to the sun this November.
A mysterious spiral of doom — okay, just a spiral-shaped galaxy — has been captured in a new image by the Hubble Space Telescope.
A new portrait of the Milky Way's neighbor, Andromeda, shows our twin galaxy in a whole new light thanks to a new instrument on Japan's Subaru telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea.
The U.S. space agency is in need of more women among its ranks, NASA's second-in-command said last week during a panel on women in space.
A strangely dense spot in the universe populated by a surprising amount of matter has been puzzling scientists since it was revealed in March in an all-sky map made by the European Planck satellite.
Scientists have uncovered a new key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.
NASA's Orion capsule, planned to be its next manned spaceship, safely landed during a flight test today (July 24) using just two of its three parachutes.
A giant radio telescope in Chile has captured amazing baby photos of what will eventually be a colossal star 11,000 light-years from Earth. Even more shocking: It's still growing, scientists say.
A temporary exhibition about the space shuttle opened Jan. 17.
Astronomers have detected exotic antimatter particles flying from the sun during solar flares — a discovery that could help scientists understand this mysterious sibling to matter.
An ambitious project aims to image the close environs of a black hole for the first time.
It's been 66 years since something landed on a ranch near Roswell, N.M.
Opportunity launched 10 years ago, on July 7, 2003.
Quantum mechanics is enabling chemical reactions in space that shouldn't be possible.
A Russian Proton-M booster exploded in a fiery crash shortly after launch yesterday.
The new Kennedy Space Center display of Atlantis is awesome, and brings up mixed emotions.
