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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

– 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...

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...

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...

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...