An image taken from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a giant cyclone swirling above the north pole of the planet Saturn. 
Elon Musk, the founder of the private space transport company SpaceX, thinks humans can start a colony on the planet Mars, colonized by vegetarians if… Two veterans assigned to 1-year stint at International Space Station
By William Atkins
The United States and Russia have assigned the first crew to stay at the International Space Station for one year in preparation for future explorations… 
Google has just launched a 3D visualisation of the 100,000 stars closest to our solar system. Grand-daddy of all galaxies discovered: 13.3 billion light-years away
By William Atkins
Astronomers have discovered the oldest galaxy yet, one that was present only 420 million years after the Big Bang created the universe. 
Whatever you do, don't look down!
The Earth will be passing through meteors left over from the Comet Encke during November 2012, what we humans call the Taurid meteor shower. Although…
NASA announced on November 2, 2012 that it has a new alert called "Spot the Station", which sends an email or test message to people… 
An international team of astronomers used a NASA telescope to determine the average distance between stars. They used what is called "cosmic fog" to make… 
Hurricane Sandy is pounding the northeast part of the United States. The GOES-13 satellite captured the storm on Sunday, October 28, 2012, as it approaches… 
