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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield participated in an annual event for Canadian music students from a unique location: a long-distance perch in the Cupola of the International Space Station. Before launching to the ISS in...

A disco inferno in space? Astronomers have been keeping an eye on an unusual star that unleashes a burst of light every 25 days, like an extremely slow pulsating disco ball. Similar pulsating bursts of light have been se...

Captured by NASA's GOES-13 weather satellite on Friday, Feb. 8, this image shows the convergence of two massive low-pressure systems that are expected to bring high winds and up to 2-3 feet of snowfall across much of New...

Bright stars and vast clouds of dust and gas illuminate the "wings" of the Seagull Nebula (ESO) These glowing red clouds are just a small part of the wings of an enormous bird -- the Seagull Nebula, a band of gas and dus...

This week, we broadcast the Weekly Space Hangout from the ScienceOnline 2013 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Fraser Cain, Nicole Gugliucci, Alan Boyle, and Amy Shira Teitel were on location in Raleigh, and then Sc...

While Fraser was flying back from North Carolina, the Virtual Star Party Team came together for a rousing night of astronomy - even during the Superbowl. There were many views of amazing deep sky objects, including the O...

Recent findings say that Earth-like exoplanets could be all around us in our cosmic neighborhood. But how many would be home to intelligent life? A new study estimates that fewer than 1% of transiting exoplanet systems h...