An artist's depiction of a black hole collision event 1.3 billion lightyears away. The recording of gravitational waves emanating from this collision proved the last untested part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (ligo.caltech.edu) Nearly 100 years after Albert Einstein postulated his Theory of General Relativity, the last remaining unproven part has been observed, potentially offering future insights into the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe. Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration recorded the existence of gravitational waves,...

Startling news came out of India this week after it was reported that a meteorite struck a college campus, killing a bus driver and injuring three people. However, NASA is saying that what crashed to the Earth wasn’t a meteorite at all. On Saturday, a strange projectile object plummeted from the sky and crashed into the ground. (MORE:) A 40-year-old man identified only asKamarahjwas , CNN reported. Indian authorities inspect the site of a suspected meteorite a day after it...

The photo above shows the newly formed star HD 93700 lighting up the surrounding cosmic clouds in this new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. (European Southern Observatory ) A photo captured by the European Southern Observatory shows dust particles in the vast clouds surrounding newborn star HD 93700, diffusing its brilliant light and creating the reflection nebula IC 2631. The photos, taken by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, show a glowing...

Scientists say they have confirmed gravitational waves exist after two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years form the earth. Kait Parker has the details. ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly is more than a scientist and the record holder for the longest cumulative time spent in space. He's also an artist. One look at his Twitter account — found — as well as the photos above, and you'll see why. Since Kelly's deployment to the International Space Station in March of last year (along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko), he has documented his many trips around our planet with beautiful photography. Most recently, he started a series...

Planetary nebula Hen 2-437's symmetrical wings appear icy blue in a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. ( ESA/Judy Schmidt, Hubble & NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope has added a stunning photo of the Hen 2-437 nebula to its growing collection of stellar images. In the photo, it’s symmetrical wings appear in to shine an icy blue hue. As seen in the photo, Hen 2-437 is a bipolar nebula; the material spewed from the dying star has spread out...

This image shows dust hovering over Portugal and Spain on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, as seen from the International Space Station. (Twitter/@astro_timpeake) Miles above Earth, European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake captured a beautiful image of Saharan dust getting pulled into Europe by a storm system on Sunday. Peake is spending six months aboard the International Space Station, and has frequently been the source of inspiring imagery showing our planet from a unique angle. Sunday morning, Peake saw the dust...

New, declassified audio that caught the moment astronauts on the Apollo 10 heard “outer spacey” music as they passed behind the dark side of the moon was released by NASA recently. The is the newest focus of the Science Channel’s "NASA’s Unexplained Files." During the uncovered audio, you can hear astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan discuss the strange music as they made the hour-long trip around the moon. “The music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn't...

Keele University astronomerPierre Maxted and a team of space researchers announced this month, in the journal ,that they had discovered five new exoplanets outside our solar system. Classified as "hot Jupiters" for theirorbital proximity to their parent star and being much warmer than our own Jupiter,Maxted and his space colleagues detected the distant extrasolar objects using theWide Angle Search for Planets cameras at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa. "These discoveries were made using the WASP-South instrument...

The image on the left is a combination of five 300-s exposures tracking the 'asteroid,' while the image on the right is a smoothed version to help enhance the tail (indicated by the arrow), proving that it is in fact a comet. (M. Kelley/S. Protopapa/UMD) Astronomers with their eyes on the sky thought they spotted an asteroid, but a closer look revealed a comet. It was initially labeled as asteroid 2016 BA14 by the Pan-STARRS survey, but a group of...

For the past year, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have been on a mission in space, collecting research and capturing mesmerizing photos of the Earth. Tuesday, they will return to Earth, where their families, fans and extensive testing awaits them. During the mission, Kelly - the first American to spend a year in space - captured several big weather events and even the Super Bowl. However, some of his photos also revealed how frail the Earth and its...

It was one of the most intense explosions in Earth's atmosphere in three years, and yet it took weeks for anyone to talk about it. NASA announced last week that back at the beginning of February, a meteor exploded over the Atlantic Ocean. Turns out, it was one for the record books. The fireball shot through the sky over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Brazil on Feb 6. As the meteor disintegrated, it released an, the BBC...