NASA has released a new atlas of more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many never seen before. The more than 18,000 images were taken by the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE),... Read more
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun,... Read more
Astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun. The 200-300m-wide rock sits in front of our planet at a gravitational “sweet spot... Read more
The Voyagers are approaching the edge of the enormous sphere of charged particles the Sun has thrown out into space Humankind’s most distant emissaries are flying through a turb... Read more
