Next month, James Bond heads to Chile's Very Large Telescope. That can't be good.

The National Geographic Channel provides an up-close look at the Very Large Telescope.

NASA scientists are scratching their heads over the monstrously large swirls revealed by the Cassini orbiter at the planet's top and bottom.

Deep Impact's in-your-face encounter with Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, created an enormous splash of dust and gas far more massive than anyone predicted. Some 3½ years later, planetary scientists are still struggling to understand what happened.

Observers have spotted a distant body that's veered far off the interplanetary highway.

You'd think that a car-size space rock racing through space and slamming into Earth's atmosphere at night would put on a dazzling show. One did just that early Tuesday morning — but did anyone on the ground actually see it?

NASA's Messenger spacecraft slipped past the innermost planet on October 6th, revealing an amazing Mercurian landscape never before seen at close range.

Many telescopes around the world are looking for asteroids that might potentially hit Earth. Every candidate has turned out to be a false alarm — until now!

No matter where you observe from, now you can get an astronomical weather forecast.

Incredibly precise measurements of the solar surface show that our star isn't quite as spherical as once thought.

With a Space Shuttle poised and ready in Florida to begin the fifth and final Hubble house call, the venerable orbiting observatory has had a malfunction that will probably delay the repair mission until early next year.

In the 50 years that space physicists have tracked it, the outward "wind" of charged particles coming off the Sun and flowing past Earth has never been weaker than it is right now.

After spending 4½ years doing geologists' bidding on Mars, you'd think that NASA would give its rovers a rest. Instead, one of them has started rolling toward a large crater that it likely won't reach for two years.

After three years of controversy over who discovered it, a large object in the Kuiper Belt has finally been christened by the International Astronomical Union — but the discovery rights are far from settled!