Pacman Nebula has grown some new fangs; just in time for Halloween. NASA recorded a photograph of the Pacman Nebula, a star-forming cloud, munching its way through the cosmos. NASA reported on Oct. 26 that, when viewed through infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, the cloud can be seen with a decidedly more ghoulish appearance.
An uncommon, all-red aurora borealis or Northern Light appeared over the skies of the city of Independence in Missouri at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 24.
Comet Elenin, which in August further aggravated Internet hoax following Harold Camping's May 21 Doomsday prophecies early this year, is no more, NASA said Tuesday.
The 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) ended ahead of schedule due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina.
ROSAT, a German research satellite, re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal at 9:50 p.m. EDT on Saturday, but it remains unclear whether any parts of the satellite hit the Earth's surface.
When 74-year-old Joann Davis of Lake Elsinore contacted NASA on May 10th, she was looking for a buyer for the piece of moon rock her dead husband left her. However, she was in for a shock.
The comet discovered in December became popularized as a doomsday comet since astronomers expected it to fly close to the Earth and the comet resembled ancient apocalyptic prophesies.
A 2,000-year old mystery that has puzzled astronomers and researchers has finally been solved, with the help of infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
Employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles were advised to stay indoors on Tuesday after a 200-pound bear was spotted roaming the campus.
Unusually beautiful northern lights, or aurora borealis, were seen unusually far south over the skies of the United States on Monday night, thanks to a solar wind from the sun that sent the stunning light show for sky watchers.
A prototype passenger spaceship developed by privately owned Space Exploration Technologies arrived in Florida on Sunday for launch on a practice cargo run to the International Space Station, officials said on Monday.
NASA continued to roll out apps for astronomy enthusiasts to view pictures of far off worlds, get updates on missions and receive updates on the International Space Station.
The Dragon spacecraft has come to Florida, from where it will take off.
TW Hydrae, in the constellation Hydra, is an orange dwarf star and is smaller than our sun.
2,000-year-old mystery of a huge supernova solved by two NASA telescopes.
Chinese astronomers looked up in the sky back in 185 A.D. and found a mysterious guest star that stayed around for eight months then disappeared. The sighting was the first documented supernova confirmed by scientists in the 1960s.
NASA's Spitzer has identified signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. This downpour is said to resemble own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to the Earth.
NASA says it has solved the mystery of the identity of first recorded supernova, which was observed on Earth 1,826 years ago. The discovery was made by the Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, said NASA on Monday.
Could the Turkey earthquakes (or the 9.0 Japan quake in March of the L'Aquila, Italy quake in 2009) have been predicted in advance?
NASA agents confront a 74-year-old woman at a Denny's to recover moon artifact.
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.
Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.
