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Apollo 11 moonwalker Neil Armstrong died on Aug. 25, 2012 at age 82, and NASA has posted a video tribute with an original song "Tranquility Base" by songwriter Eric Brace. Fittingly, the video starts with a 1960's era te...

As an amateur astronomer, two of the most frequently questions I'm asked are "When is the best time to see the aurora borealis and where is the best place." As for place, Churchill, Manitoba and Tromso, Norway come to mi...

The Canadian Space Agency is famous for its astronaut program and robotics technology.

Robots designed for spaceflight could help engineers on the ground build a better car. A new three-year study will examine the ways that robots on the International Space Station send and receive messages.

Changes in temperature, rainfall and wind speed over the next 77 years increases the likelihood of extreme fire events across large portions of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Japan has an extra-smart rocket cued up at the launch pad for a ride into space. The country's space agency plans to fire its first Epsilon rocket into orbit on Aug. 27 to demonstrate it is possible for a rocket to do it...

In this Ford marketing video, technical leader Oleg Gusikhin talks about how the car company is studying Space Station To Earth communications and its application to safer driving.

As high summer slowly but steadily approaches on Saturn, Cassini is opening a window to the seasonal changes that occur not only on the ringed planet but also its moons. Here we can see a dark band developing around Tita...

See photos of Japan's Epsilon rocket making its spaceflight debut in 2013. The Epsilon rocket is designed to test its ability to monitor its own systems for satellite launches. The first launch is on Aug. 27, 2013.

The planet Neptune reaches opposition this week and you can catch live telescope views of the blue gas giant planet tonight (Aug. 26) in a special hour-long webcast by the Slooh Space Camera. Find out how to see it.

Permanently shadowed craters on the moon or Mercury are one of the most exciting locations to search for water. Because the walls of these craters protect certain spots inside from the rays of the sun, it's quite possibl...

The Vought F-8A, dubbed the TF-8A, was used to test the experimental Supercritical Wing airfoil.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array on Sep. 2, Alex Cherney (terrastro.com) compiled video of the array located near near Narrabri, NSW, Australia. Watch for kangaroos!

By the time humanity is ready to put boots on Mars, the long cruise to the Red Planet may be as easy as a dream. NASA-funded scientists are investigating ways to induce hibernation in astronauts, which could make the Mar...

Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope in Chile plan to announce a "major result" Wednesday (Aug. 28).

NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson has left the agency, after a 15-year career that included more than 31 days in space, for a position with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space.