Astronomy News

More than a million Galileo moments, and counting! As the International Year of Astronomy draws to a close, Canadians are reporting a new appreciation for the beauty and mysteries of our universe.

A scene from Columbia Pictures' 2012. The action film will be released November 13, 2009.

The current golden age for gamma ray astronomy is creating more questions than answers.

The UW-Whitewater physics department is celebrating the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with a lecture series and exhibits.

Astronomers from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have been heading out into the streets of Manchester to show passers-by close-up views of the Moon and the planet Jupiter.

Abstract Data volumes from multiple sky surveys have grown from gigabytes into terabytes during the past decade, and will grow from terabytes into tens of petabytes in the next decade.

What is the source of cosmic rays? Seems like an easy enough question. Cosmic rays are little subatomic particles zipping across the Universe.

A new type of supernova a ' the explosive death of a star a ' has been discovered in which helium detonates on the surface of a white dwarf star.

This is a composite of false color images of the galaxies found at the early epoch around 800 million years after the Big Bang.

A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St.

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star.

The image at right is Hubble's close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy's core, the bright whitish region at far right.

The environmental education program at Lake James State Park is offering an astronomy program on Saturday evening November 7, 2009.

Prominent astronomer and astro-historian Dr. E.C. Krupp has urged film fans not to panic after watching John Cusack 's upcoming disaster movie 2012 because there's no way the end of the world will come so soon.

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

New evidence from Chandra suggests that the neutron star at the center of the Cas A supernova remnant has an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere.

Anthony Bragalia continues his research in to the Socorro UFO incident in 1964 which now seems more like a prank than a genuine encounter thanks to material clues and physical evidence found at the site.

This morning, Benedict XVI received participants in the conference sponsored by the Specola Vaticana for the International Year of Astronomy accompanied by Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate of Vatican City.

Astronomers in Chile and Japan have for the first time seen part of the "cosmic web" of galaxies that permeates the known universe in a gigantic assembly some seven billion light-years from Earth.