Why are there no nebulas visible in the night sky...I mean nebulas large enough to be seen with the naked eye? The answer is that there...

The New Horizons probe has been slow to send back its images of Pluto, but they're coming in now and they're exceeding expectation...

This is Puppis A, a supernova remnant seen through a gap in a large foreground nebula, the Vela Super Nova Remnant. If you're a longt...

Hold your hats because this (above) is a much more significant picture than it seems. It's the Andromeda Galaxy, AKA M31, as seen r...

Above, the side of Pluto facing its largest moon, Charon, as seen by the New Horizons probe two days ahead of rendezvous. The nearest pass ...

This (above) should get an award for the best astronomy photo of the year. It's a jagged cliff looming over a gravel foreground on the...

Well I guess everybody's already heard of the problems encountered by the Philae lander when it landed on the comet last week. It'...

I hadn't intended to do another astronomy post so soon after the last one, but I've come across pictures that are just too interes...

I never tire of looking at pictures of the Milky Way taken from the surface of the Earth. This one (above) was taken from Reunion Island ...

Before I get started with what's new, I'll put up this beautiful shot of an erupting Icelandic volcano. It reveals three different...

Above is Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. It's tiger stripe surface constantly changes due to water ice escaping from the interior and res...