After completing a rigorous, detailed worldwide survey of candidate astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope, the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors is now considering two optional sites, one in each hemisphere. The first site is Cerro Armazones, which lies ...

NASA’s scientists recently used the Swift Satellite in order to see a star explode and become a supernova. Although over the past 100 years astronomers have observed thousands of supernovas, every time it was seen, it was only after the ...

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, U.S. researchers have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star. The scientists found even more water surroundings two other young stars in the ...

A little comet named Holmes brightened unexpectedly in mid-October 2007, as it rushed through our solar system, to the extent that it became extremely bright and was visible to the naked eye. Scientists are not certain what made the little ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope recently detected tremendous amounts of water vapor inside the accretion disk of a newborn star approximately 1,000 light-years from Earth. The new observations show for the first time how water, a basic ingredient for life as ...

The recently released version of the popular software Google Earth includes a new unique feature – a look not down towards our own planet but upwards into the heavens. Clicking the name of your favorite galaxy will take you millions ...

Although the next big space telescope is not scheduled for launch before 2013, NASA scientists and engineers are already planning the launch vehicles that will be able to carry even larger telescopes into high orbit and eventually help humanity create ...

Quietly under construction since 2005, scientists from the University of Delaware in the U.S. backed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are building the world largest “telescope” under hundreds of feet of Polar ice. The new instrument will help scientists ...

NASA’s next generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is being displayed at the AAS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. Despite the fact that the upcoming space telescope isn’t planned for launch until the mid 2013 the model currently ...

A hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova, the death of an extremely massive star in the galaxy NGC 1260, some 240 million light years away from earth, was recently observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as ...