The first close-up pictures of Pluto sent back on Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have managed to capture the public’s imagination...
The proposed High-Definition Space Telescope was discussed by a panel of scientists at the American Museum of Natural History on July 6th....
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected a planet possessing a similar atmosphere to Earth. The distant planet, WASP-33b, has a stratosphere – one of...
Images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope of three runaway stars, which were flung deep into intergalactic space by their prior host...
This month, a conjunction with the sun will cause a two-week communications blackout between NASA and their fleet of Mars spacecraft, which...
The Planetary Society’s experimental solar sail, known as the LightSail spacecraft, has gone silent while orbiting the Earth after having been launched...
Today, the International Space Station (ISS) relocated a storage module to make room for an additional docking port intended for commercial spacecraft...
An “extremely rare” cluster of four quasars in a single nebula has been spotted by astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii...
A team of high school students have discovered a previously unseen pulsar—a rapidly spinning neutron star—which happens to have the widest orbit...
According to Space.com, Hubble has revolutionized astronomers’ understanding of the universe since its April 24, 1990 launch. Hubble helps scientists search for...
After launching from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2004, Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury and has not only...
In order to combat the increasing amount of miscellaneous space debris orbiting around our planet, an international team of researchers led by...
The Taurus star-forming region is located 455 light-years from Earth and within this region is a star known as MWC 480, which...
Scientists widely believe that the Moon was created as a result of a collision between the Earth and a planetary body known...
The Earth-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a high-resolution image of an Einstein ring effect in what CNET indicated in...
As we reported earlier here on Immortal News, NASA’s flying saucer known as the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), which is intended for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Sunday that the U.S. space agency will soon be testing the rocket-powered saucer-shaped...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled an ambitious mission which plans to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid...
Research conducted by astronomers Gregory Laughlin and Konstantin Batygin suggests that our solar system’s lack of super-Earths, planets smaller than Neptune but...
The galaxy that contains our Solar System, known as the Milky Way, may host billions of planets in the “habitable zone,” which...