A collision between two neutron stars yields an elegant byproduct
Space
Found: A Blue Planet That Rains Glass
One of the strangest and loveliest exoplanets yet gives the galaxy another pale blue dot
Supersun! A Giant New Star is Born in the Milky Way
A throwback to the earliest days of the Universe suddenly reappears
A Shuttle Veteran Celebrates Her Spacecraft
Marsha Ivins, who bet her life on the shuttle Atlantis, pays the retired ship a visit
The Mystery of the Intergalactic Radio Bursts
Scientists have discovered a new class of cosmic energy in outer space — nearly 10,000 bursts of radio waves popping off every day — but where they come from and how they occur are still a mystery
Ten Best Photos from the Month in Space
Every month produces a flood of pictures from the cosmos, but some are much more equal than others. Here are the past month’s 10 best.
Voyager I: On the Solar System’s Exit Ramp
A new study reveals just how close humanity is to being an interstellar species
NASA’s Proposed Asteroid Capture Mission Animation
The best two things you can say about this video NASA just posted of its proposed asteroid capture mission is that it’s insanely cool to watch and it will cost you only 4 minutes and 42 seconds of your life. The worst you can say is that it will cost taxpayers billions of dollars in development costs before it is ultimately discarded as …
Meteor Strike: Investigating a Cosmic Crime Scene
A new video tells the tale of an unlikely bit of astronomical forensics
The Great, Belching Black Hole — Eats Gas, Burps X-rays
The Andromeda Galaxy just next door is home to a lot of new — and rude — star remnants