Credit: ALMAThis is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes. It shows two galaxies colliding in a view no other telescope on Earth or in space could capture. The shot is a teasing glimpse of the capabilities of the Atacama Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope – this picture has been taken using only a quarter of the antennae it will have when it...

Credit: APA spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles up show the astronauts’ paths when they walked on the moon, as well as ruts left by a moon buggy. Experts could even identify the backpacks astronauts pitched out of their lunar landers...

A Jupiter-sized gas planet is being described by Astronomers as the darkest known extrasolar planet (exoplanet). Known as TrES-2b, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have concluded that the gas giant reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it blacker than coal or any planet ormoonin our solar system. Read more here Tweet This...

The European Space Agency says it has completed what it calls the largest digital camera ever built for a space mission – a one billion pixel array camera that will help create a three-dimensional picture of the Milky Way Galaxy. Read more here Tweet This...

Credit: Andreus Agency: Dreamstime.com Russian Scientists are predicting that a 900 foot long Asteroid could collide with Earth in 2036. You may recall we were warned about this asteroid, Apophis, back in 2004. Although NASA brushes off these claims, they still admit that the possibility of collision is there. NASA’s Donald Yeomans assures the public that chances are “just 1 in 250,000.” The questions is, if an asteroid does get too...

While NASA’s satellites are most commonly used to observe distant stars and faraway planets, the space organization’s new program will be looking at something a little closer to home – local farmers’ crops. KSBW reports NASA is in the planning stages of forming a new initiative that will help Californian farmers determine which of their crops need to be watered. Satellite images would be provided on a weekly basis...