 | Astronomy - Dec 12, 2008 Earth's moon will be closer to our planet on Friday night. The moon will definitely put on a bright show as it will situate more than 31,000 miles closer to earth. |
 | Astronomy - Dec 3, 2008 Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe analyzed a new strange light from the heavens more than 400 years ago. Scientists now say they can unveil just what he saw. The light came from a supernova explosion. |
 | Astronomy - Nov 28, 2008 A team of astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has detected hints of liquid water on one of Saturn's moons. The researchers used images from the space agency's Cassini probe that reveal the possibility of water on Enceladus. |
 | Astronomy - Nov 26, 2008 Planets Jupiter and Venus will begin to light up the sky on Thanksgiving night. The two planets will move closer to one another this week. They will be the brightest objects in the sky. |
 | Astronomy - May 22, 2008 Two young astronomers have captured for the first time the earliest death throes of a supernova, verifying a decades-old theory about how these giant stars commit stellar suicide. |
 | Astronomy - Feb 14, 2008 The two new planets are orbiting a small star in a solar system thousands of light years away. |
 | Astronomy - Nov 7, 2007 The discovery marks the first quintuple planetary system ever found and it suggests that systems packed with planets might be much more abundant in the spatial universe than previously believed. |