Two celestial crowns for late summer By Joe Rao There are two star patterns representing crowns that are visible in our current late-summer evening sky: Corona Borealis (the Northern Crown) and Corona Australis (the Southern Crown).
Space photos: The most amazing images this week! By Doris Elin Urrutia See the best photos on Space.com this week.
900-year-old Chinese supernova mystery points to strange nebula By Doris Elin Urrutia In the year 1181 AD, a new bright point of light as luminous as the planet Saturn appeared to Chinese and Japanese skygazers for a little more than six months before disappearing.
Travel through galaxies and the dark matter web in this stunning universe simulation By Stephanie Pappas A new freely downloadable universe simulation reveals the structure of galaxies and galactic clusters over more than 13 billion years of history.
Distant 'Requiem' supernova will be visible again in 2037, astronomers predict By Tereza Pultarova A distant supernova previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope will be visible again from Earth and surrounding space in 2037, astronomers predict.
Vibrant globular cluster sparkles in new Hubble telescope photo By Doris Elin Urrutia The famous telescope peered into the constellation Sagittarius to view this gorgeous assortment of candy-colored stars.
Our Milky Way galaxy isn't very well mixed, study suggests By Meghan Bartels Our galaxy isn't as thoroughly mixed as scientists sometimes assume, according to a new study.
Strange, repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way has scientists stumped By Brandon Specktor Scientists detected a repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way, and it's unlike anything else they've ever studied.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed to December By Meghan Bartels NASA's long-awaited and high-powered James Webb Space Telescope won't begin observations this year after NASA and its counterpart the European Space Agency (ESA) announced another launch delay.
I've always wondered: Why are the stars, planets and moons round, when comets and asteroids aren’t? By Jonti Horner This is a fantastic question Lionel, and a really good observation!
Stunning image shows dark tendrils masking giant Centaurus A galaxy near Earth By Meghan Bartels Scientists have captured a stunning new image of a massive galaxy ringed by dust filaments.
Dense 'hot spots' on a young star reveal what Earth's sun may have looked in its infancy By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what the sun looked like in its youth.
Hubble telescope spies brilliant star cluster in Milky Way's neighbor galaxy By Rahul Rao Hubble peers deep to see newborn stars in action.
Star-smash supernova? New type of stellar explosion possibly seen By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers have uncovered evidence of explosions triggered by dead stars ramming into live stars, possible proof of a new type of supernova, a new study finds.
'Radio colors' from mysterious deep-space flashes reveal lone stellar corpse as source By Charles Q. Choi Mysterious repeating pulses of radio waves may come from a hitherto unknown kind of extraordinarily powerful cosmic magnet, and not pairs of stars as previously suggested, a new study finds.
Amazing Hubble telescope photo shows space 'sword' piercing huge celestial 'heart' By Mike Wall A flaming blue sword seems to pierce a giant cosmic heart in a gorgeous new photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Alien 'Dyson spheres' could be harvesting the power of black holes By Adam Mann Researchers show how intelligent aliens might draw nearly-limitless power from a black hole using a Dyson sphere.
Rogue black holes could be wandering at the edges of the Milky Way By Ben Turner A new simulation predicts that the lost giants were dislodged by gigantic collisions and have wandered the outskirts of galaxies ever since.
What color is the universe? By Harry Baker Scientists have figured out the average color of the universe by recording visible light from more than 200,000 galaxies.
Mystery object in space could be a new arm of the Milky Way By Adam Mann A telescope in China has mapped out what may be a totally new arm of our home galaxy.
