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A spacecraft has spotted water on the lunar surface that originated deep within the moon. The find marks the first detection of "magmatic water" from orbit and confirms analyses performed on moon rocks brought to Earth b...

It has been speculated that silicate particles (a component of glass) in the atmosphere of HD 189733b, located 63 light years away, gives the planet its blue color as well as a possible superheated glass storm.

The third of the seven primary mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast Saturday at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. The 20-ton mirror was formed by melting chunks of borosilicate glas...

ISS astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy tested the suit aboard the International Space Station and found that the helmet continues to leak water. The cause is still under investigation.

Scientists have detected magmatic water -- water that originates from deep within the Moon's interior -- on the surface of the Moon. These findings represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, a...

The historic rocket engine parts that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos salvaged from the seafloor have now been launched online, providing the public a live view of the multi-year effort to conserve the rare artifacts for futur...

A NASA rocket component passed an engine test firing that produced 20,000 pounds of thrust. Liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen successfully passed through the injector and produced 10X more thrust that previous 3-D print...

Stargazers can spot a fire-breathing dragon in the early evening sky this week. Draco -- the celestial dragon -- is a large, albeit dim, constellation.

Scientists are hoping to induce an unconscious state in astronauts so that they can be stored in cold capsules for long space flights. Here's how astronaut hibernation and suspended animation might one day work.

Women are career limited by the current lifetime radiation exposure restrictions for astronauts enforced by NASA, astronauts say. Both male and female astronauts are not allowed to accumulate a radiation dose that would ...

When Canada's rock star astronaut Chris Hadfield visits his birthplace in November, he'll see his dazzling space photos on human bodies. Local Sarnia artist Cat Cabajar has received a small grant to recreate Hadfield's p...

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who experienced a harrowing near-drowning during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, is telling his story in a new video and blog post. See what Parmitano felt as his...

This space wallpaper of Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 combines radio observations acquired with ALMA with much shorter wavelength visible light observations from ESO's New Technology Telescope.

Exoplanet composition, 'buckyballs' and Saturn's widest ring are just a few of the discoveries made by analyzing Spitzer's infrared data. Launched in 2003, the NASA telescope mission will continue, even after exhausting ...

A wildfire raging in Northern California can be seen from space. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg snapped a photo of the blaze from her post aboard the International Space Station on Saturday (Aug. 24).

It's hard to believe that it's been with us for a decade now. Ten years ago this week, the planet Mars reached made an exceptionally close pass of the planet Earth. This occurred on August 27th, 2003, when Mars was only ...

An astronaut conducts an experiment outside the Shuttle.

If you're a science fiction nut like everyone here at SPACE.com, you most likely have already had an encounter or two with time travel. But astrophysicist Eric W. Davis says time travel could one day be real. All you nee...

Stargazer and photographer Stefano De Rosa snapped this stunning beautiful photo of the Blue Moon full moon of August rising over and Italian castle on Aug. 20, 2013. See how De Rosa captured the photo here.

The new radar images show the asteroid 2005 WK4 as it passed Earth on Aug. 8 at a safe distance of 1.93 million miles (3.1 million kilometers), which is about 8.2 times the distance between Earth and the moon. It is near...

The first launch of Japan's newest rocket, the next-generation Epsilon booster, hit a major snag Tuesday (Aug. 27), forcing the country's space agency to call off the attempt. The glitch occurred late in the Epsilon rock...

Some scientists think the sun is part of a binary system and that it has a companion star that affects life on Earth.