Ancient iron-loving bacteria may have scooped up evidence of a nearby supernova explosion 2.2 million years ago, leaving an extraterrestrial…
Astronomers just keep honing their skills and refining their techniques to get the most out of their telescopes. Scientists using…
On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have…
Imagine this "Death from the Skies" scenario; a tiny supernova lurks unseen near our Sun. Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…
One of the most lovely deep space objects to observe is the grand-design spiral galaxy and there are few so…
I live in the frozen north by choice, but occasionally I yearn for warmer places like Tucson and Key West.…
In a wave of media releases, the latest studies performed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are lighting up the…
The northern portion of the Cygnus Loop, as seen in an enormous new panorama from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)…
GRB 080913, a distant supernova detected by Swift. This image merges the view through Swift's UltraViolet and Optical Telescope, which…
The folks over at PHD Comics have put together a new video in their Two-Minute Thesis series, this one featuring…