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Some cultures used to say the Earth was the center of the Universe. But in a series of "great demotions," as astronomer Carl Sagan put it in his book Pale Blue Dot, we found out that we are quite far from the center of a...

This is just a gorgeous shot of our home planet from the International Space Station, shared by astronaut Karen Nyberg via Twitter. While many pictures of Earth from space show a bright view of our planet, this view of t...

An unexpected arrival of a surprisingly strong (6 KP) geomagnetic storm from the Sun provided an amazing weekend for astrophotographers. Stargazers from both hemispheres were treated with seeing the aurora. We already po...

"Holy crap, this is the rarest scene I've ever captured and likely ever will," said photographer Mike Hollingshead. "I was standing there just watching when bam, big red sprites 'squirting' up into the air in the aurora....

We've found hundreds of planets outside the solar system, but taking a picture of one is still something quite special. The light of the parent star tends to greatly overwhelm the faint light of the alien planet. (So usu...

New measurements of the energetic space radiation environment present in interplanetary space taken by NASA's Curiosity rover confirm what has long been suspected - that lengthy years long voyages by astronauts to deep s...