WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.

"Your job is very simple! All you need to do is look out for the features that mark out spiral and elliptical galaxies. In fact, as you're a human and not a computer, most galaxies should be easy to classify since they're obviously spirals or obviously ellipticals."

The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts.

Help classify galaxies via the Internet.

University specialists are demonstrating what meteorites look like on the ground and reaping the benefit when members of the public discover more.

Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover clues about the creation of the universe.

A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.

Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array

A fierce backlash has begun against the decision by astronomers to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

European astronomers are planning to build an optical telescope that is four times bigger than any in existence.

We've known for a while about "planemos" - planetary-mass objects not orbiting a star. However, this is the first time two such bodies have been found orbiting one another.

Observations of a quasar have been interpreted to have it powered by a magnetospheric eternally collapsing object, which the study authors say precludes the existence of a black hole. The research has yet to be verified.

The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century has baffled scientists for years. Now a British researcher has stunningly established it as the world's oldest surviving astronomy computer.

In one of history's nice ironies, we have turned our space-based observatories toward earth to photograph ancient observatories like Chichen Itza and Stonehenge. This gallery has the shots.

Comet 73P is continuing its glorious disintegration as it flies by Earth ? the comet is now in at least 58 visible pieces. Amateur observers should be able to see the brightest sections of the comet ? full name Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 ? near the constellation Cygnus with a small telescope or a pair of binoculars.

Earlier this year, astronomers reported that a second "red spot" - a giant storm - had appeared on Jupiter. Already famous for having a large red spot that is a storm that has been raging for at least 400 years, Jupiter has a treat in store for planet watchers this July. Red Spot Jr. is sneaking up on the bigger storm.

The Binary Research Institute (BRI) has found that orbital characteristics of the recently discovered planetoid, "Sedna", demonstrate the possibility that our sun might be part of a binary star system.