For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their 'wow' factor, these unique images will help the HRSC team validate and

How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a prolonged winter?

NASA reported that a 23 foot wide asteroid came within about 8,700 miles of entering Earth's atmosphere on Friday. This was the third closest miss on record. Astronomers at the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey group announced the finding.

This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. The phase of the Moon will be

Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved

Scientists have quietly moved to power up the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland for a second time, officials say. A preliminary run conducted by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, was performed last week in a much different atmosphe

Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. Clouds of gas big enough to swallow planets bre

The mantis shrimps, found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, have the most complex vision systems known to science, researchers at Bristol University have found. The shrimps can see in 12 colours - humans see in only three - and can distinguish b

Looking at the image of Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232 provokes us at The Daily Galaxy" to wonder in awe "what exists within this magnificent object?" The galaxy is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust, caught up in a gravitational swi

The biggest things in the universe just got bigger - or rather, they've always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now. Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of being a mere two billion times the mass of th