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Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn positioned between it and the Sun, allowing for incredible views of the ring system and its atmos...

About 70 pages into The Milky Way, An Insider's Guide, a strange craving for hamburgers overtook me. (...)Read the rest of Book Review: The Milky Way, An Insider's Guide (550 words) © Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today...

High-altitude winds on neighboring Venus have long been known to be quite speedy, whipping sulfuric-acid-laden clouds around the superheated planet at speeds well over 300 km/h (180 mph). And after over six years collect...

As Uranus speeds in its orbit in the solar system, there are three large space rocks that are in lockstep with the gas giant, according to new simulations. Two of them are wobbling in unstable "horseshoe" orbits near Ura...

This lovely image of the Moon with fireworks exploding nearby in the sky was taken by astrophotgrapher Giuseppe Petricca over the weekend. "In Pisa, it was the Patron Saint's Day, and I managed to catch fireworks, launch...

On Monday, NASA introduced eight new astronaut candidates - four women and four men - who will "help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system," NASA said. "This is ...

Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific inquiries of our time. Europe and Russia have teamed up for a bold venture named ExoMars that's set ...