07.03.12 - The outbursts of V1647 Ori are giving astronomers a glimpse of the extreme childhood of a sun-like star.
07.02.12 - A fiery image from NASA's WISE mission shows the Flame nebula "burning" a hole in the cosmic dust.
07.06.12 - Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable.
06.29.12 - Though this galaxy is tiny compared to our Milky Way, this "vapor" (formally DDO 82) still contains millions of stars.
06.28.12 - Astronomers have made an unparalleled observation: significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.
06.28.12 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe.
06.27.12 - After deploying its mast, the NuSTAR observatory began a series of checkout procedures.
06.22.12 - Messier 10 is a ball of stars that lies about 15,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Bearer).
06.22.12 - WMAP transformed the science of cosmology by establishing the age, geometry and contents of the universe to astonishing precision.
06.21.2012 - Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each other.