Cool Science News

ABC News: Search for life on other worlds tops astronomy to-do list   A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial l...

BBC: $10bn James Webb Space Telescope unpacked in Kourou   Engineers have unboxed the James Webb Space Telescope in French Guiana and will...

(Click on Image to Enlarge) This compressed view of the entire sky visible from Hawai’i by the Pan-STARRS1 Observatory is the result of...

The first super-Earth identified as a rocky exoplanet BBC : Advance in astronomy 'can help find other worlds' The pull of gr...

APOCALYPSE NOW: Why A Rare Astrological Event TONIGHT Could Herald The 'End Of Days' -- Express IF YOU'RE feeling out of s...

An artist’s impression of the merger of two neutron stars. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some...

An artist's impression of how the oldest known star in the universe might look  The Oldest Star In The Universe: Astronomers Find ...

A new analysis of data from NASA's Kepler mission finds evidence for at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Ca...

Two Planets ... Two Stars: Nasa Detects Strange New Solar System (And One Of The Planets Occupies The Life-Supporting 'Goldilocks Zone...

Vampire star! New research using data from ESO¿s Very Large Telescope has revealed close binaries transfer mass from one star to another, a ...

An artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope on Cerro Armazones, a 3,060-metre mountaintop in Chile's Atacama De...

This artwork shows one of the concepts for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, also known as WFIRST. NASA officials say that the teles...

The Milky Way and Andromeda Crash Together -- Popular Science First, the bad news: In four billion years it's going to get a lot more cr...

Artist concept of the curious events going at the star named KIC 12557548. Credit: MIT Doomed Mercury-Sized Exoplanet May Be Turning to Dust...

Origins Of The Universe Exposed In Dazzling 3D Videos -- Live Science Some of the greatest mysteries of the universe, such as how the first ...

Earth sits just in the galactic plane which appears as a very dense but very long strip of stars arcing across the sky. The galactic centre ...

Jupiter And Venus Conjunction Dazzles Amateur Astronomers -- The Telegraph Jupiter and Venus last night appeared next to each other in the n...

ESO 510-13: Warped Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), C. Conselice (U. Wisconsin/STScI) et al., NASA Hubble Catches a Warped Spiral Galaxy i...

An Otherworldly Discovery: Billions of Other Planets -- Wall Street Journal Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in...

GJ1214b, a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth Photo: AFP Astronomers Discover New Type Of Planet – The Water Wo...