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The online course offers college credits and has four world-renowned scientists as its instructors Astronomer Jackie Faherty has teamed up with some of the world’s leading scientists to create a new Astronomy course that people can take from the safety of their own homes. As...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona This is a challenging time for families. Schools across the U.S. are struggling to provide...

Think about every space movie you’ve seen and name the worst imaginable way that a character has been killed off (and try to forget about the baby alien popping out of that guy’s chest). Got it? OK. The second-worst way to die in space surely...

Space, the final frontier — a seemingly infinite region filled with so much wildness and weirdness that even the brightest human minds can hardly begin to understand it. Gazing up at the stars on a crisp, dark night, it’s hard not to wonder about what...

An accretion disk sounds like something you might have installed on an old-school desktop PC in order to load a program. (“To play ‘Oregon Trail,’ start by inserting your accretion disk.”) But accretion disks are way cooler; we find them in some of the most...

A new study conducted by astronomers using Hubble Space telescope reveals our universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. “This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of...

– A new study reveals that Ligeia Mare – a large sea on Saturn’s moon Titan- is composed mostly of pure liquid methane. Ligeia Mare’s shores may be surrounded by wetlands and the seabed may be covered in a sludge of carbon- and nitrogen-rich material....

NASA has released a video captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory showing an elongated coronal hole on the surface of the sun. A long coronal hole can be seen right down the middle of the sun in this video. “Coronal holes are areas on the...

The “2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition” The winning images will be on display at the Royal Observatory, London, from 9 September until February 2012 Selection of images from NewScientist: 01 Star trails are photographed by pointing a camera skywards and waiting. As the...

I. Original Article, as presented by UniverseToday: “Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of the Universe. His evidence came from the orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters, rotational speeds, and gravitational lensing of...