On May 13, 1985, a Philadelphia police helicopter bombed the fortified house of a radical organization, MOVE, to end a ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever ...

There was nothing terribly remarkable about the Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 satellites—at least not at first. Iridium was a 1,500 lb. communications satellite the U.S. launched into space in 1997; ...

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Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble's ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a spectacular nebula in all its glory. (And yes, it does kind of look like a cosmic sea slug.) Nearly 30 years ago, Hubble looked at the Trifid ...