<p><a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2015-12-a-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Launched in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.2 million observations of more than 38,000 celestial objects.</p> <p>In its 25-year lifetime the telescope has made nearly
<p></p> <p>Discovered on 5 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel, the Veil Nebula was once a star. Now it is a twisted mass of shock waves that appears six times larger
<p></p> <p>Since 2012, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three ‘tsunami waves’ in interstellar space. The most recent, which reached the spacecraft earlier this year, is still propagating outward according
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are among the samples collected by scientists who have been studying the payload from
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Scifi movies are sometimes criticized when explosions in the void make noise. As the old saying goes, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” Without air there
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.</p> <p>New
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>During a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2013/09/apollo-legend-on-nasa-its-a-tragedy-it-really-is/">powerful interview</a> with the Houston Chronicle this week, NASA’s first manned spaceflight director <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft,_Jr.">Chris Kraft</a> gave his unabashed opinion about the
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip.</p> <p>“It looks like we’re no
<p></p> <p>Computer simulations by a pair of researchers at the University of Edinburgh predict that a fleet of interstellar probes could explore the entire Milky Way galaxy within a fraction of
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped