Video Link (Courtesy NASA/Berkeley) In this quick image compilation, assembled from para-Earth-orbiting spacecraft, a comet can be seen diving into the Sun's lower atmosphere. The video above is a compilation of imag...

Leonardo Da Vinci is primarily associated with his artistic creations and his oddly inspired mechanical contraptions. However many people are unaware of his astronomical endeavors, more importantly his discovery of earth...

When you see the moon rising or setting over the l...  ...that way. See examples of how this works at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link

The planet Jupiter has lost one of its belts -- the Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB). It's made of mostly ammonia ice, phosphorus, and sulfur, and apparently disappears now and then: The belt took leaves of absence in...

A NASA spacecraft called the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) took a picture of a previously unknown comet crashing into our sun: This is the third comet to swing by the sun this year. Known as sun-grazing co...

(YouTube Link) NASA worked with Braille experts to create a tactile representation of the Carina Nebula: The 17-by-11-inch color image is embossed with lines, slashes, and other markings that correspond to objects...

The crater shown was created in 1970 by the Apollo...  ...as taken just last year. Read all about it at Bad Astronomy

Photographer and scientist Miloslav Druckmüller and his team specialize in capturing images of solar eclipses. Pictured above is one photograph that compiles nine images, taken on July 22, 2009 from the Marshall Island...

NASA's Kepler space telescope mission is sending back data on exoplanets we've never seen before. Five new planets that the probe recently discovered are large planets that revolve close to their stars, making it easier...

The picture above was taken by NASA's Cassini space probe of Titan, a moon of Saturn. The glint of light at the top of the moon is of a lake -- the first non-Earth lake ever seen. In Popular Science, Jeremy Hsu writes:...