Saturns famous rings are kept in place by the so-called sheppard-moons.

The Event Horizon Telescope is an Earth-sized virtual telescope powerful enough to see all the way to the center of our Milky Way, where a supermassive black hole will allow astrophysicists to put Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to the test.

The Russian/Chinese Mars-probe Phobos-Grunt crashed into the pacific ocean yesterday. The French amateaur-astronomer Thierry Legault filmed the probe as it passed over France (See video)

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate calculation yet of how matter clumps together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.

New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness.

A deep field view with Hubble's WFC3 camera has resolved and analysed the population of uyoung blue stars in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy.