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We've shared oodles of great images from the recent planetary conjunction of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, visible in the evening skies last week. But this video from astrophotographer César Cantú is just plain beautiful...

Right now, as you read this article, it's quite possible that the ultra-huge black hole at the center of our galaxy is feasting on asteroids or supercooked gas. We've seen these supermassive black holes in other spots in...

Late yesterday, NASA turned the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California towards Asteroid 1998 QE2 as it was heading towards its closest approach to Earth, and they got a big surprise: the ...

Balloon-based research on cosmic particles that began over a century ago will get a big boost next year -- all the way up to low-Earth orbit, when NASA's Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) will be sent to the Space S...

Mission planners really hate it when space robots land off course. We're certainly improving the odds of success these days (remember Mars Curiosity's seven minutes of terror?), but one space agency has a fancy simulator...

From a JPL press release: From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the moon from NASA's Cassini spacecraft...