It's the season to be merry - even if you're 2,000 light years away. Nasa's Hubble space telescope has captured an unusually 'festive' looking galaxy, which looks like a soaring 'snow angel'. It's a bipolar star-forming nebula - Sharpless 2-106 - with two 'wings' of super-hot glowing blue gas, stretching from ... Continue Reading

We're all familiar with the phrase "the man in the moon," the idea that the full moon looks like a human face. But what about this far-out notion: Could there be aliens on the moon watching humankind from a relatively close distance? That's a meaty question that brings out emotional ... Continue Reading

Stargazers around the world are helping scientists to try and detect signals from an advanced civilisation on another planet. In February, Nasa announced that its Kepler space telescope had identified 1,235 possible planets, some of them 'habitable zones', during its first four months in orbit. Now astronomers at the University of California, ... Continue Reading

These are the first pictures of Mercury taken by the Messenger spacecraft from its orbit around the planet. It has taken six years for the Nasa vessel to travel around 60million miles to the smallest planet in the solar system. 'This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in ... Continue Reading

Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Google wants to preserve Dead Sea Scrolls for eternity by digitizing them and making them available online. JERUSALEM — The Dead Sea scrolls, containing some of the oldest-known surviving biblical texts, are to go online as part of a collaboration between Israeli antiquities authorities and Google, ... Continue Reading

Microsoft and NASA has produced the most detailed map of Mars to date, free for you to explore. Microsoft Research, together with the American space agency NASA, has made available the mostdetailed mapping application for March, to date. The maps have been put together by a team at NASA who goes ... Continue Reading

NASA is behind the First Person Explorer game Moonbase Alpha, that can now be downloaded from Steam. The space scientists at NASA have used their experience from previous lunar expeditions and created a computer game, where anyone can get an insight into what it like on the moon. In the game ... Continue Reading

James Cameron, director of Avatar and Titanic, is helping to build a 3-D camera for the next robotic rover that NASA will send to Mars. NASA announced this month that James Cameron is working with Malin Space Science Systems Inc. of San Diego to build an updated ... Continue Reading

Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build. The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks ... Continue Reading

Space junk or a tiny asteroid? A mystery object is slated to make a close transit of the Earth tonight. WASHINGTON -- A mystery object from space is about to whizz close by Earth on Wednesday. It won't hit our planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is. Astronomers ... Continue Reading

Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System. The observatory, which was launched last year to find other Earths, made the discoveries in its first few weeks of science operations. Although the new worlds are all bigger than our Neptune, the US ... Continue Reading

The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA Click image for full resolution. Data from the down-looking near-infrared spectrometer. The red curve shows how the spectra would look with water vapor and ice added in appropriate amounts to match the dips in the observations. The ... Continue Reading