Catching a glimpse of even regular neutrinos—low-energy particles generated in the atmosphere—is difficult enough, but spotting a "cosmic neutrino" left over from the Big Bang has been downright impossible. That is until this cubic kilometer buried under Antartica's frozen wastes started looking. Read More >>

The Herschel Space Observatory was the world's largest and most powerful infrared telescope, able to see parts of the universe nothing else could. Unfortunately, it met its maker this week when it ran out of the liquid helium coolant it requires to map hidden corners of the cosmos. Read More >>

Astrophotography is one of the most complex types of photography, blending artistic talents with deep scientific understanding and technical ability. So, if you're just starting out, it can be a complicated topic to get a handle on — but this video should help. Read More >>

Despite being among the brightest and easily identified clusters in the night sky, the trio of stars in Orion's Belt are actually among the least studied in astronomy. That's partly because the huge, far-seeing telescopes typically sent into space are designed to spot only the dimmest, most distant stars. But Orion's Belt will finally get its day in the sun with today's launch of a pair of tiny telescopes—the smallest to ever gaze into the heavens. Read More >>

A 50-foot wide, 10,000-ton meteor that packs triple the force of the nuke dropped on Hiroshima is nothing to scoff at. But in the grand scheme of things, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia, last week is a cosmological runt. Space rocks as much as 100 feet across are estimated to strike every hundred years or so and those like the 160-foot diameter Tunguska meteor of 1908 hit maybe once a century. Read More >>

The Sun's corona—essentially its plasma "atmosphere"—is actually hotter than the surface of the star itself. Scientists have long suspected that the region's million-degree temperatures influence its massive magnetic fields, and have hypothesized that solar flares originate there. But researchers had never been able to observe these phenomena first-hand—until now. Read More >>

We may be on the verge of an astronomical renaissance. Once complete, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope hunt for dark energy and matter throughout the Southern sky from its perch atop Cerro Pachon in Chile while producing a staggering 60 petabyte public data archive. Now, we just need to figure out how to pay for it. Read More >>

Sure, space-based X-Ray telescopes have been in service since the Einstein Observatory launched back way back in 1978. But the NuSTAR Project is different: It promises to illuminate the heavens above as never before. Read More >>

In 1990, the Broad Band X-ray Telescope orbited the Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, gathering data on galactic and intergalactic X-ray energy sources. Now it just gathers dust as government surplus. Unless, of course, you've got $7 (£4.4) million and a hankering for some nifty NASA memorabilia. Read More >>

The visible light comprises a minuscule fraction of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Radio telescopes allow us to observe what cannot be seen, like microwave background radiation—the echo of the Big Bang. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 18 of the most expansive intergalactic listening stations. Read More >>

Here's an easy to way to silence your annoying photographer friends who brag about the megapixels in their expensive DSLRs. The U.S. DoE has just endorsed the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's proposal to build a 650 ton behemoth of a camera, with a 3.2 billion pixel sensor, that will snap images of the heavens from an observatory being built atop a Chilean mountain. Read More >>