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Screenshot from 100,000 Stars Want to explore the Milky Way? A new visualization tool from Google called 100,000 Stars lets you take a tour of our cosmic neighborhood, and with a few clicks of your mouse you can zoom in,...

43 years ago today, on November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 successfully launched to the Moon. But it wasn’t without a little drama. The weather that day at Cape Canaveral in Florida was overcast with light rain and winds...

On the ground, the total solar eclipse of November 13/14, 2012 was only visible to only to observers in northern Australia. But ESA’s Sun-watching satellite Proba-2 enjoyed three partial eclipses from its vantage ...

Artist’s concept showing a dust disk around a binary system containing a white dwarf and a less-massive brown dwarf companion. (P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF) Even though NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Surv...

Here’s the newly-released documentary telling the behind-the-scenes story of Felix Baumgartner’s historic freefall from the stratosphere (no, he didn’t really jump from the edge of space) on October ...

If you’ve been following the spectacular adventures of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover since the nerve wracking Sky Crane touchdown just 3 months ago, then PBS NOVA TV has sweet treat in store for you – ...

View of the eclipse from Clifton Beach in Queensland, Australia. Credit: Camilla the Rubber Chicken Here are some images and video from the total solar eclipse from today, November 13/14, 2012 (depending on where you wer...

In this new video, SETI founder Frank Drake and astronomer Jill Tarter about why the search of the cosmos is important and needed. Visit SETI online to learn more about the search for signals of extraterrestrial life usi...