<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Even though NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is 24 years old, astronomers are still coming up with imaginative, novel, and groundbreaking new uses for it. The latest is an innovative
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>We now have the technology to go snooping for extraterrestrials in our own backyard. No, not as close as little green men cutting up crop circles; instead, we should
<p>In 1948, astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky" target="_blank">Fritz Zwicky</a>, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun and solar
<p>The International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the official body that governs the designations of all celestial bodies — in their capacity of purveyors of all things “official” has deemed attempts
<p>ESA’s Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun.
<p>Using computer simulations, scientists from the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at the University of Hawaii are shedding light on a question that has challenged astronomers for years: What causes wide
<p>Astronomers searching for Earthlike worlds need look no further than Alpha Centauri, the stellar system next door it seems.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> The video above shows a fly-through of the bright