Every year, the National Maritime Museum of Br...  ...le and Space, Our Solar System, Deep Space, Young Astronomy Photographer and Best Newcomer. Pictured above i...

This is an image taken by the Hubble telescope...  ...nation of this very strange star system is at Bad Astronomy . Link -via Monkeyfilter

(Video Link) This time-lapse video by YouTube user szyzyg shows asteroids in our solar system as they have been discovered since 1980: Notice now the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit, most di...

Binary solar systems -- systems consisting of two stars orbiting each other -- are quite common. Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that many of them have a lot of dust and debris, leading to th...

In 1821, French astronomer Alexis Bouvard reasoned...  ...n its orbit, next year will be a special year for astronomy . It will be the first time for nearly 150 years t...

Galaxy M87 is an enormous collection of heavenly bodies, but astronomers who have studied the effects of its black hole see similarities to the recent volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, and have dubbed it...

Artist Franceska McCullough makes toothpick sculptures that are inspired by geometric forms and astrophysical patterns. Pictured above is "Ganymede and Callisto Pod", in reference to the two largest moons of Jupiter:...

Researchers led by Paul Crowther, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, UK, have discovered a cluster of young stars that are about twice as big as the maximum size that astrophysicists thought could...

How close could you get to the sun before burning up? Alessandra Calderin of Popular Science asked NASA engineer Ralph McNutt: The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a...

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day today is a cosmic cloud called...