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UFO conspiracy theorists have attempted to use publicly available NASA images to prove that the space agency must be engaging in an elaborate cover-up, calling attention to new footage captured by a telescope onboard NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft — one of... Read Full Story

The Helix Nebula is one of the closest and most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. It lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer), about 700 light-years away from Earth. This strange object formed when a star like... Read Full Story

At the center of this infrared image is a massive red galaxy, 9.8 billion light-years from Earth, which acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, distorting the light from an even more distant galaxy, 17.3 billion light-years away. The result is... Read Full Story

"Conditions are ripe for a stormy, wet winter in the Pacific Northwest and a dry, relatively rainless winter in Southern California, the Southwest and the southern tier of the United States," says climatologist Bill Patzert of JPL. "After more than... Read Full Story

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have discovered two new circumbinary planet systems - planets that orbit two stars, like Tatooine in the movie Star Wars. Their find, which brings the number of known circumbinary planets to three, shows that planets... Read Full Story

A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only... Read Full Story

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the faint glow of a star that exploded more than nine billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an ambitious survey that will help... Read Full Story

Russia's Space agency, Roscosmos, announced Wednesday that the midpoint in a three day window when Phobos-Ground’s debris is expected to fall is at 0918 GMT Sunday, when the probe will be above the ocean, about 1,700 kilometers (some 1,050 miles)... Read Full Story

In a sky survey made in near-infrared light the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted five clustered galaxies so distant that their light has taken 13.1 billion years to reach us. These galaxies are among the brightest galaxies at that... Read Full Story

The image above shows one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our galaxy, a region called Cygnus X. The choppy cloud of gas and dust lies 4,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan.... Read Full Story