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Most of the early galaxies that astronomers have been able to observe are small with a low-to-moderate amount of star production. But now the Herschel Space Observatory has found a massive dust-filled galaxy churning out...

Many astronauts seem to like the Apollo 13 movie, but being technically minded folk they also enjoy pointing out what actually happened during that so-called "successful failure" that landed safely on this day in 1970. T...

Feeling a little meteor-starved lately? Me too. It's been a meteor shower desert since the Quadrantids of early January. That's about to change. This weekend brings the celestial version of April showers with the annual ...

Video streaming by Ustream It's been billed as "the biggest, loudest and brightest rocket ever to launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility" in Virginia, and the commercial company Orbital Sciences Corporation is ready ...

Dr. Sally K. Ride, physicist, NASA astronaut, and first American woman to fly in space, will be honored with a U.S. Navy research vessel bearing her name, which will be operated by and homeported at San Diego's Scripps I...

The commercial space competition race is about to begin, and with a big bang at a most unexpected locale; Virginia's Eastern shore. The new and privately developed Antares rocket will ignite a new space race in the comme...