The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Flickr surpassed those on the previous high record, the Situation R...

The ancients have known for some time that we are made of stardust, but now a NASA spacecraft has detected the actual atoms from outside the solar system...

Stargazers will get yet another celestial show when Venus and the sliver of the crescent moon flirt in the western sky just after sunset on December 26...

We humble beings residing on Mother Earth have been treated to quite the celestial show of late. Back in October there was the Orionid Meteor Shower ...

It plunged into the sun, and survived...

Just before the moon rises on December 13, and just after it sets on the 14th, and even during the hours between, the celestially inclined are invited to train their eyes on the sk...

Courtesy of NASA On Oct...

Dragging from the loss of that hour to Daylight Savings Time? Apocalyptic predictions bringing you down? Never fear. NASA is here to help...

With the end of the Mayan "long count" calendar about 13 months away—December 21, 2012—doomsayers have been wondering what foreseeable event might be the culprit of the theorized a...