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Scientists have been surprised by the unexpected discovery of a nearby solar system using a new experimental technique. The system of five planets ranging in size from two to six times the Earth's mas... > Read More

A meteorite which crashed to Earth earlier this year contains grains older than the solar system itself, according to scientists. These rare and primitive space rocks, called carbonaceous chondrites, ... > Read More

One of the Sun's greatest mysteries has been solved: why it gets hotter, rather than cooler, further away from its surface. The Sun's visible surface, the photosphere, has a temperature of about 6000&... > Read More

The world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope will be shared by Australia and South Africa, project organizers announced on May 25. Both nations had been vying to host the Square Kilometer A... > Read More

Scientists have found superflares more than 1 million times more powerful than flares generated by the Sun occurring on stars being studied by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The finding, published in... > Read More

Brian Schmidt of Australian National University's Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University, and Saul Perlmutter of the University of California - Berkeley&... > Read More

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on August 5, 2011 to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno's detailed study of the largest planet ... > Read More

A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called "missing mass" of the universe during her vacation. U... > Read More

Nick Risinger poses for a photo in Seattle with the rack of six synchronized astrophotography cameras he used to create the photograph on the wall behind him, which shows the entire night sky in a sin... > Read More

NASA's Messenger spacecraft slipped into orbit around Mercury on Thursday the 17th of March, becoming the first Earth craft ever to circle the closest planet to the sun. The spacecraft was launched on... > Read More

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched on 19th of June 2009 and has taken many high resolution images of the lunar surface. The mosaic of the farside of the Moon was released on the 1... > Read More

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which could see first light as early as 2019, will peer more deeply into the universe's hidden history than humans have ever attempted. Scientists say the instrumen... > Read More

A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant object in the universe - a galaxy 13 billion light years away. The galaxy, observed using the Hubble Space Telescope, comes from the relative daw... > Read More

Astronomers have found the largest star yet detected - up to 20 million times brighter than the Sun - using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Named R136a1, the star is thought to have started off wi... > Read More

The moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago... > Read More

Despite the recent massive earthquake in central Chile, and the considerable loss of life that ensued, there is at least some good news to report. Major professional and amateur observatories have esc... > Read More

Less than a year after getting a major overhaul, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped panoramic, full-color images that let astronomers peer more than 13 billion years back into cosmic history. ... > Read More

This stunning flash in the early morning sky is a Leonid meteor captured heading West over Lake Hume, Albury New South Wales, Australia. The image was taken with a Canon EOS 400D DSLR camera dur... > Read More

After a couple of weeks touring China our tour group along with quite a few other such groups assembled at a site about an hour's drive from Shanghai. The weather was overcast with occasional&nbs... > Read More

Disclaimer: I am not a professional photographer or an experienced astro photographer. These notes are based on my trial and error attempts to shoot the night sky with a Canon eos350 Digital SLR camer... > Read More