What created this unusual explosion?

What could shoot out a neutron star like a cannon ball?

These bright rims and flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale.

On October 10, a new telescope reflected the light of the setting Sun.

With equipment frozen deep into ice beneath Earth's South Pole, humanity appears to have discovered a neutrino from far across the universe.

Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth.

South pole star Sigma Octantis (of the constellation Octans) is on the left of this starry expanse spanning over 40 degrees across far southern skies.

Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke, a long time ago from a planet very very close by, this Delta II rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-B at 12:05 pm EDT on June 11, 2008.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into orbit on June 11th, 2008.