The GALAH survey used the AAO’s 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope to examine the spectra of over 340,000 stars. ...

At a Glance New research has confirmed that the atmosphere of Uranus smells like rotten eggs.A team of scientists came to this conclusion after discovering hydrogen sulfide in the planet's atmosphere.The planet's distance from Earth has made it difficult to draw this conclusion in the past. Hold your jokes: Uranus smells like rotten eggs, a team of researchers has found. A new study in the online journal Nature Astronomy has concluded hydrogen sulfide, which makes rotting eggs smell bad, is...

This poor planet will always be the butt of the joke. ...

Images from the surface of an obscure comet depict scenes similar to a scary movie. ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite releases the largest map of the Milky Way ever made. ...

See the stunning composite of colorful images sent by the European Space Agency’s gas-seeking orbiter. ...

An amazing sight on the sun as magnetic waves dance on the surface. ...

The image above shows an Eta Aquarid meteor shower streaking over Tullahoma, Tennessee, in May 2013. (NASA All Sky Fireball Network) At a Glance May will see the return an annual meteor shower and great views of our solar system's planets. The fifth month of the year will close out with the Full Milk Moon. The fifth month of the year has finally brought out the summer temperatures, and it will also bring a number of celestial events to the...

Lab teams from NASA Glenn’s COMPASS lab and labs from Johns Hopkins and Penn State have come up with a wild idea: they want to send a submarine to explore the depths of a vast methane sea on one of Saturn’s moons. ...

NASA launched Saturday morning an Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars InSight lander from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to look deep beneath the surface of Mars, studying the red planet’s interior by listening for marsquakes and measuring its heat output. ...

An Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s InSight lander was the first to launch from the U.S. West Coast. ...

People aboard a small plane in California get a dramatic high-altitude glimpse of the launch of NASA’s InSight Mars lander. ...