Astronomy News

The ground feels firm and solid beneath your feet. Of course, the Earth is rotating, turning once on its axis every day.

NRF CEO Dr Albert van Jaarsveld has said that astronomy could make South Africa a world leader.

Information on the mystery bomber who 100 years ago attacked the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh during a suffragette campaign is being sought.

Did you know that there are actually space sounds? Or, that there have been several occurrences of raining fish and that it's possible to travel faster than light? If not, those are just some of the fascinating science mysteries that we've rounded up for you today.

Ball State University is investigating a complaint that one of its assistant professors in the department of physics and astronomy is preaching rather than teaching.

Image from May 5, 2013 of a the inner region of Comet ISON using the 2-meter Liverpool telescope at La Palma.

A former University of Canterbury student, Cambridge University astronomy professor Gerry Gilmore has become a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government.

"Do you guys know what is on the other side of those things?" a member of the audience inquired at the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, referring to one of the most popular and identifiable phenomena of outer space; black holes .

Last week, NASA astronomers monitoring the Moon saw an explosion larger than anything they've seen before .

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

If so why is it so rarely referred to as such? For example, in that illustration would it not be proper to label "Our sun" as "Sol"? Just one of those trivial things that occupy my limited and shrinking gray matter.

This diagram lines up planets recently discovered by Kepler in terms of their sizes, compared to Earth.

For the first time since Cold War days, the United States and its allies have been threatened with nuclear attack.

The Lake County Astronomical Society will provide powerful telescopes to view images of the moon on Monday, May 20, from 7-9 p.m. in front of the Ela Area Public Library.

In the next 200 years, an asteroid will never come this close to earth as much as it is going to on May 31, 2013 at 4:59pm Eastern time.

Many adults remember when it was exciting to hear about a man landing on the moon .

NASA reported on Thursday, May 17 that it had observed the largest lunar meteor hit since it began observing the moon eight years ago.

Don Cohen: In an article on the NuSTAR launch delay in the fall 2012 issue of ASK, I wrote, "NuSTAR, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, contains the first focusing telescopes designed to look at high-energy X-ray radiation." Soon after that issue was sent out, complaints began to arrive: What about the balloon missions with focusing X-ray ... (more)

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet ISON was taken on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the sun .