Astronomers have discovered a new comet that shoul...  ...calendars for 2013. Read more about the comet at Astronomy

Alex Harrison Parker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. After 22 years of operation, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured so many images that he was able to use them to create...

Boom! You're looking at the doomed binary star Eta Carinae which looks like it's exploding. The two lobes are actually hot gaseous matters and dust which are moving outwards at about 1,500,000...

Steven Bamford made this marvy text generator that lets you recreate words using images of real galaxies. The Geekologie Writer thoughtfully and accurately predicts that a real-life version of this is the future of skywr...

This looks like an ultra-modern playground, but it's actually an astronomical observatory in Jaipur, India. It was built on orders from Maharajah Jai Singh II in the early 1700s. Jantar Mantar, which means calculation in...

This astronomically awesome lamp shade casts t...  ...lampshade. Or, better yet, grab a drill and an astronomy

So those astronomy books that I just threw away weren't wrong? This...

Is this photographic proof that the Disney corporation have begun branding other planets, or are the extraterrestrial beings that live on the surface of Mercury big fans of Mickey Mouse? The sad truth is many people a...

Voyager I, the space probe launched 35 years ago, has gone farther than any probe before, and is still communicating with earth. Soon it will be completely free from the influence of our Sun -in other words, it is leavin...

This spiral galaxy is named M101, but those wh...  ...w of how to interpret the different colors at Bad Astronomy