In the image above, the record-breaking pulsar identified as NGC 5907 X-1 is in the spiral galaxy NGC 5907, which is also known as the Knife Edge Galaxy or Splinter Galaxy. The image comprises X-ray emission data (blue/white) from ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (galaxy and foreground stars). (ESA/XMM-Newton; NASA/Chandra and SDSS) At a Glance A pulsar identified as NGC 5907 X-1 is the brightest, most furthest...

In this photo taken Feb. 17, 2017, the Apollo 11 capsule sits in the restoration hanger at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, ahead of a planned four-city tour. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko) The Apollo 11 command module, which traveled more than 950,000 miles to take three Americans to the moon and back in 1969, will take its first tour of the United States in more than 40 years. The famed carried Neil Armstrong,...

At a Glance Astronomers have discovered seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.Three of these planets are in what is called the "habitable" zone.Located in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, the planets are some 40 light years away in the Aquarius constellation. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found a new solar system filled with seven Earth-like planets surrounding a single star, three of which might be habitable, the agency announced Wednesday. The three planets are located in what is...

The Southern Hemisphere enjoyed the first of 2 solar eclipses arriving in 2017. ...

A test of a NASA rocket engine in Mississippi ends with a rainbow over clouds of test-generated steam. ...

At a Glance SpaceX will send two private citizens on a trip around the moon in late 2018, the company announced Monday. SpaceX is going to the moon, and it's taking two people along for the ride. For the first time ever, a privately funded company , SpaceX announced Monday in a release. The flight is planned for late 2018 in the Dragon 2 spacecraft, the company added. "Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space...

A rendering shows a white dwarf, similar to the sun. (Illustration/Mark Garlick, University College London) Astronomers said Monday they have found hints of a two-star planetary system that closely resembles Tatooine, the Star Wars home of Luke Skywalker. Like the fictional Tatooine, rocky debris is orbiting two stars — a white and a brown dwarf — in a system called SDSS 1557 , according to a statement by the University College London. The study, published Monday in the March edition...

The satellite image above shows China's Longyangxia Dam Solar Park on Jan. 5, 2017. The solar farm holds 4 million panels and has an 850-megawatt capacity, which is enough to power roughly 140,000 U.S. homes. (NASA Earth Observatory ) At a Glance Satellite images from NASA show the sprawling growth of Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, the largest solar farm in the world.The solar farm holds 4 million panels and has an 850-megawatt capacity. In China’s Qinghai Province, 4 million solar...

Video shows several dust devils moving across the surface of Mars. ...

NASA plans to launch a special spacecraft in 2018 that will get relatively close to the sun and answer some key questions about it. ...

A “ring of fire” replaced the sun over cities in South America and parts of Africa Sunday morning as the Annular Solar Eclipse played out in the skies. The moon passed in front of the sun, leaving a narrow ring of light in the dark sky. The eclipse began "at the southern tip of South America, first making landfall in Chile and passing through Argentina, before traveling ," according to online astronomy service Slooh. (MORE:) in Argentina to see the...

The animation above was assembled from three images acquired by NASA on Feb. 26, 2017. In that view, both the Earth and the lunar shadow move during the annular solar eclipse. (NASA) At a Glance NASA satellites captured images of the annular solar eclipse.The phenomenon cast lunar shadows onto portions of our planet. On Feb. 26, a "ring of fire" replaced the sun over cities in South America and parts of Africa as an annular solar eclipse played out in...