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Two Brown University scientists are a step closer to solving a four-decade old mystery about some unusual looking craters on Mars.

There are two crown constellations shining in the sky now: Corona Australis, the Southern Crown, and Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown.

Monday (Aug. 30) marks the Labor Day holiday in the United States, and while many Americans travel around the country in celebration of the three-day weekend, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will get a ...

Thirty years ago Friday (Aug. 30), Guion "Guy" Bluford became the first African-American in space, launching into low-Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

One graphic designer took it upon himself to create a walking map of JPL's sprawling, fascinating research labs in Pasadena, Calif.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden talks about the contributions of former astronaut Guy Bluford, who became the first African American in space in 1983.

“ Suddenly I heard a noise as of thunder, which I thought to be that of a wave of the sea. The trees shook, and the earth was moved. I uncovered my face, and I saw that a serpent drew... --

In the coming decade, three enormous telescopes will come online. See how the Giant Magellan Telescope, European Extremely Large Telescope and Thirty Meter Telescope will stack up in this SPACE.com infographic.

Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be sharing the September nights' sky with the Moon, and toward the end of the month, comet ISON will line up with Mars.

As we kick off the Labor Day holiday weekend, early on Saturday (Aug. 31) during the predawn hours, check out the east-northeast sky anytime after 2 a.m. local daylight time and your eyes will immediately be drawn to the...

If you want to see detail on the Moon, usually the best times and places to look are when the Moon is in a crescent phase, and near the terminator. These recent images uploaded to Universe Today's Flickr page will attest...

This space wallpaper shows part of a set of three images revealing views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

Two Apollo 16 astronauts inspect the Lunar Roving Vehicle before their mission.

It's easy to take the International Space Station for granted. It's been planned, under construction and/or operated for decades. Humans have occupied it continuously for 4,684 days (close to 13 years) as of today. Accor...

The September digest of upcoming space and astronomy news events. This month sees the launch of the LADEE mission to explore dust in the lunar atmosphere, the European Planetary Science Congress at University College Lon...

Finnish photographer Thomas Kast took this stunning shot of a lunar 'fog bow' on a cold, foggy night around 1 a.m. local time on Aug. 25, from Yli-Ii, Finland. See how he did it here.

It is that time of year when I’d be remiss not to highlight all the amazing Science Notes articles written as final projects by students of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz.... --

Stargazer Thomas Heaton captured this stunning shot of Perseid meteor streaking across the night sky over Edlington castle in Northumberland, England on Aug. 12.

Every year astronomers see hundreds of supernovae erupt in other galaxies, but from such great distances these stellar explosions look only like bright dots. Researchers therefore prize the few... --

Stargazer B.G Boyd snapped this amazing image of a starry night and purple sky not long before sunrise in August 2013. See how he did it here.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have glimpsed a monster black hole disgorging a high-speed, spiraling jet of superheated plasma that looks like a slinky stretching and reforming in outer space.

Does NASA's bold plan to drag an asteroid near the moon run afoul of 1967's Outer Space Treaty, which provides the basic framework of international space law, or 1972's Convention on International Liability for Damage Ca...