Photo: Profound Whatever [Flickr]LEGO enthusiast Alex Eylar created his own version of M.C. Escher's Relativity with a neat twist: it's the sci-fi version!The full layout: LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by car...

Reddit member caesararum wrote a beautiful essay s...  ...peculating on what it's like to be Voyager 2, the space probe launched in 1977 that is still sending back...

Last week we showed you a video of the sun's surfa...  ...was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope. Bad Astronomy Blog has new footage tak...

You thought that Saturn's moon Mimas looks like the Death Star? The Cassini probe analyzed temperature differences on the surface of Mimas and determined that it is actually Pac-man! Link -via Digg (image credit: NSA/...

The crater shown was created in 1970 by the Apollo 13 moon mission. Wait -you remember Apollo 13 {wiki}, don't you? That's the one where Tom Hanks James Lovell and his crew didn't get to land because everything went wron...

This application will give you a lesson in how d...  ...lanets crash into each other or fly off into deep space . At least that's what happened to mine! With some...

Researchers say that Uranus and Neptune may have full oceans of liquid diamonds with giant diamond icebergs floating through them. The research showed that when diamonds are in their liquid state, they function similar t...

Every once in a while, people encounter things on their radio, TV, or interstellar wave detectors that no one can explain. Is it a secret military message? A prankster hacking just to see if it can be done? Aliens trying...

NASA's Kepler space telescope mission is sending back data on exoplan...

This post gives you a crash course in gravity, specifically how gravity affects the way we travel to (or don't travel to) other planets. The more massive and more compact your planet is, the harder it is to get off of....