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Giant 'Dark Sky' Preserve Promises Spectacular Stargazing

Posted 05.29.2012

OurAmazingPlanet Staff - May 24, 2012 05:17 PM ET The NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature reserve in southern Namibia, has gotten the sta...

Solar Flares Nothing Much Compared To Other Stars' Outbursts

Posted 05.17.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/16/2012 01:22 PM EDT on SPACE.com Stars like our sun can release "superflares," explosions of up to ...

NEXT MONTH: Rare Celestial Event May Kickstart Search For Alien Planets

Posted 05.16.2012

By: Mike Wall Published: 05/16/2012 01:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com Observations of next month's historic Venus transit may eventually help astronomer...

Weird Galaxy's Dark Heart Emits Huge Amounts Of Energy

Posted 05.16.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/16/2012 09:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com A telescope in Chile has caught a spectacular new view of a peculiar galaxy ...

Far-Off Galaxies Show 'Battle' Between Black Holes, Baby Stars

Posted 05.10.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/09/2012 01:12 PM EDT on SPACE.com The intense energy and winds from gigantic black holes can block the birth of ...

WOW: Ancient Stars Swarm Like Bees At Milky Way's Edge

Posted 05.09.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/09/2012 10:12 AM EDT on SPACE.com SCROLL DOWN FOR HUGE PHOTO. A ball of some of the oldest stars in the unive...

Dying Stars Caught Feasting On Earth-LIke Planets

Posted 05.07.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/07/2012 06:26 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers have caught four dying stars in the act of chowing down on rocky...

Monster Black Hole Caught Swallowing Unlucky Star

Posted 05.02.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/02/2012 01:09 PM EDT on SPACE.com Call it a Cosmic Scene Investigation: For the first time, scientists have iden...

What Odd Two-From-One Alien Planets Say About Star Formation

Posted 04.30.2012

By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 04/30/2012 11:57 AM EDT on SPACE.com A massive alien planet that may have been ripped into Earth-size chunks by ...

LOOK: Coolest Images From Hubble Telescope After 22 Years In Space

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2012

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, ushering in a new era in space exploration. From its low-earth orbit, the telescope can take...

Alien Life Could Exist On HOW Many Planets? Study Yields Surprising Answer

Posted 04.29.2012

By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 04/28/2012 08:24 AM EDT on SPACE.com A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common ...

Sun-Like Star May Break Astronomical Record

Posted 04.27.2012

By: Denise Chow Published: 04/26/2012 05:29 PM EDT on SPACE.com A star already known to host five alien planets may actually be home to a whopping...

Nebula Looks Like A Beautiful Space Flower

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.23.2012

Heralded as the most famous celestial band -- second only to the rings of Saturn -- the Ring Nebula (also categorized as M57) glows with impressive "l...

LOOK: Massive Stars Look Marvelous In Space Telescope Mosaic

Posted 04.17.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/17/2012 10:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com A stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an unprece...

THIS WEEKEND: Best Time To See Saturn

Posted 04.13.2012

By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 04/11/2012 05:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com When amateur astronomers reflect on the most memorable sights of their lifetim...

Bachelorette Party Getaways For The Stars (PHOTOS)

Oyster | Posted 04.16.2012

Oyster

We figured if we did the legwork of finding the perfect spot to play host to each of the celebs' bachelorette parties, then they'd have to send us an invite, right?

Black Hole Study Shows What Supermassive Monsters 'Eat' To Get So Big

Posted 04.06.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/06/2012 09:44 AM EDT on SPACE.com The supermassive black holes thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies ...

TONIGHT: Mars Forms Cosmic Triangle With Moon, Bright Star

Posted 04.03.2012

By: Joe Rao Published: 04/03/2012 07:41 AM EDT on SPACE.com As the evening twilight deepens around 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday night (April 3),...

PHOTO: Billion Stars Blaze In Marvelous Milky Way Image

Posted 03.29.2012

More than a billion stars blaze brightly in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an international team of astronomers. The new picture, wh...

'Warp Speed' Planets Hit 30 Million Miles An Hour, Study Shows

Posted 03.24.2012

By: Denise Chow Published: 03/23/2012 03:55 PM EDT on SPACE.com Planets in tight orbits around stars that get ejected from our galaxy may actual...

Incredible Jewel-Like Galaxy Discovered By Astronomers

| Sid Perkins | Posted 03.23.2012

The vast majority of galaxies are either flattened, disklike spirals like our own Milky Way, ellipsoidal rugby ball-shaped blobs, or irregular clumps ...

WATCH: Artist's Trippy Time-Lapse Video From Space Station

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 03.22.2012

NASA's time-lapse videos from the International Space Station (ISS) are breathtaking, sure. But wait till you see what an artist can do tweak them. Fo...

LOOK: Vast Star Cluster Shines In High-Res Hubble Telescope Image

Posted 03.17.2012

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/16/2012 12:26 PM EDT on SPACE.com Hundreds of thousands of glittering stars shine in a cluster at the center of ...

Leap Year Lesson: What Is a Year, Anyway?

Donna Henes | Posted 04.28.2012

Donna Henes

Creating an accurate and practical calendar is an astonishingly complicated challenge, which has plagued our calendrical tendencies since people first attempted to create some logical and consistent order for themselves from a universe that can be so chaotic and confusing in its complexity.

WATCH: Baby Stars Hide In Huge 'Tentacle' In Space

Posted 02.15.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/15/2012 10:45 AM EST on SPACE.com A European telescope has spotted a vast tendril of cosmic dust reaching acr...