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NASA's All-Sky cameras captured a very bright meteor burning up in the atmosphere at the same time that the Moon was in the camera field of view. Early estimates: meteor weighed ~100lbs and was traveling ~53,000 mph.

NASA has granted funding to six next-generation tech concepts that could help advance humanity's understanding and exploration of the cosmos down the road. The ideas were selected under Phase 2 of the NASA Innovative Con...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's former director talks about the mission that completed fly-bys of Venus and Mercury in the 1970's.

"Space tourism" is "buzzworthy," according to a prominent dictionary, which added the word to its lexicon this week.

It was amazing how quickly the new Quench classifications were completed. We posted them on Friday and you were already done by Sunday morning. Wow, that's awesome! This means we can turn our full attention to making sen...

A 460-mile-long stretch of canyon was discovered underneath Greenland's ice sheet by NASA's Operation IceBridge. It runs from the center of the island to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier.

There's a "Chuck Norris fact" that says Chuck once went skydiving but promised never to do it again, saying one Grand Canyon is enough. But Chuck must have taken another jump millions of years ago. Data gathered by NASA'...

The glowing colors and dancing lines of the Northern Lights could soon appear inside an educational institution near you.

Like most galaxies, our Milky Way has a dark monster in its middle: an enormous black hole with the mass of 4 million Suns inexorably dragging in anything that comes near. But even at this scale, a supermassive black hol...

It's always interesting to consider the astronomical goings-on that occur under alien skies. On August 17th, Curiosity wowed us once again, catching the above sequence of images of the Martian moon Phobos transiting the ...

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected, novel kind of triangle in the sky -- one whose points are the sun, Uranus and a first Trojan asteroid ever seen near the tilted planet. The discovery is the first known "Trojan ...

The Milky Way's giant black hole turns out to be a messy eater. Of all the gas that falls toward it, 99 percent gets spewed back out into space, new observations show.

What's new in the outer reaches of our solar system? Try the discovery of a Trojan asteroid orbiting Uranus. While a plethora of puns exist for this simple fact, the reality check is that this means there are far more of...

Trojan asteroids are space rocks that share the orbit of a planet in positions ofd stable gravitational balance called Lagrangian points. This orbit animation of asteroid 2011 QF99 shows its motion from a 'north-pole' vi...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6, as seen in this amazing space wallpaper.

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It's a new Symphony of Science video from melodysheep (aka John D. Boswell). It features Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, and Morgan Freeman. It's about black holes. 'Nuff said. Enjoy! © Jason Major fo...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6 as seen in this space wallpaper.

After Iran launched a monkey in a suborbital rocket earlier this year, they are now setting their sights on sending humans to orbit, according to the Iranian news agency ISNA. The news release says researchers at the Uni...

Getting into space is never a guarantee for an astronaut. Heck, getting into an astronaut program can be tough, as Koichi Wakata and Rick Mastracchio told Universe Today. The crewmates on Expedition 38/39 are supposed to...

The X-15 rocket powered aircraft taken aloft under the wing of a B-52.

This cool space wallpaper is an artist's concept showing the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth.