Meet the massive nebula Gum 56. Also known by its official designation IC 4628 and by its much cooler nickname – the Prawn ...

Earlier this month, European Space Agency (ESA) satellites imaged one of the most significant glacier calving events ever recorded. It all centered around ...

Rosetta’s mission team has plenty to smile about this month. The Philae lander woke up for a seven-month hibernation. And today, the Rosetta ...

Venus’ ancient surface was littered with active volcanoes. These volcanoes helped shape the planet’s surface over the course of millions of years. Yesterday, ...

A team of astronomers peered deep into the cosmos and discovered the brightest galaxy ever found in the early universe. Lying in this ...

The European Space Agency captured the world’s imagination with the landing of the Philae lander on Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12. ...

The International Space Station is all science all the time. On June 3rd, U.S. astronaut Terry Virts and the European Space Agency did ...

Incredible photos from the Hubble Space Telescope show once-invisible filaments in deep space appear as ghostly green clouds. What happened? Researchers believe they ...

There has been a flurry of activity surrounding comet 67p over the past few days. First, the biggest news. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has ...

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft was just 6 kilometers away when the picture above was snapped. You are looking at a 228 ...

Proxima Centauri wasn’t always the closest star to our Sun. 70,000 years ago, another star grazed the outer reaches of our solar system. ...

The Philae lander might be knocked out right now, but that isn’t stopping Rosetta from giving us amazing pictures of Comet 67p.