High school senior Panna Felsen arm wrestles an artificial arm built by a group of students at Virginia Tech. It’s…
Scientists have made the first conclusive discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system,…
Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark…
On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1’s crew-Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee-was killed when…
For millions of years, Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southern end of the planet, has been encased in a…
Photographer David Cortner recorded this dramatic composite sequence of the November 8 total lunar eclipse in the skies over Connelly’s…
The shape, density and spin of the asteroid Eros combine to create a bizarre pattern of what is “uphill” and…
In the vast Orion Molecular Cloud complex, several bright blue nebulas are particularly apparent. Pictured above are two of the…
Pictured at Left: Even winter’s icy grip can’t contain the lush green hues of Ireland in this January 2003 photo…
