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The strange activities of three Chinese satellites in orbit has space experts guessing at what is taking place in orbit. China launched the satellite trio in July, and some wonder if anti-satellite technology is being te...

ESA Top News: The largest Living Planet Symposium ever held has begun. Scientists and users are gathering in Edinburgh, UK, this week to present their latest satellite findings on Earth's environment and climate based.

Two scientists speak of the dwarf planet Ceres, which will be visited by NASA's Dawn mission in early 2015.

Did you notice a bright “star” close to the Moon last night (September 8, 2013)? People around the world had the treat of seeing the waxing crescent Moon have the planet Venus snuggle up close… or in some places, t...

Deep Impact's handlers lost contact with the probe -- which has studied multiple comets over the years, including ISON, a "comet of the century" candidate -- sometime between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14, mission team members ann...

Scientists have discovered unexpected ingredients for life -- organic molecules never seen before in meteorites -- inside a chunk of space rock that fell to Earth over California last year, scientists say. See what they ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: New data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show near-normal sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific Ocean persisting for a 16th straight month.

See spectacular photos of Venus near the moon on Sept. 8, 2013 from stargazers around the world. The celestial pairing wowed amateur astronomers and skywatchers across the U.S., South America and beyond.

The star of NASA's 'Train Like An Astronaut, Train Like Mike' series (astronaut Mike Hopkins) talks about the importance of staying fit for spaceflight and answers SPACE.com reader questions.

Coming soon: astronaut Mike Hopkins workout videos from Space and tips from astronaut trainers. More info about NASA's new public outreach fitness program can be found here: ://.facebook.com/trainastronaut and #trainlike...

In this fixed camera view, SpaceX's Grasshopper makes a lateral movement of 300 feet before returning to its launchpad, but not before startling a nearby herd of cows.

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launched toward the moon Friday (Sept. 6) in a dazzling nighttime liftoff. The mission, which is aimed at exploring long-standing mysteries of the moon's atmosph...

Signs of life on the Martian surface would still be visible even after bacteria were zapped with a potentially fatal dose of radiation, according to new research — if life ever existed there, of course. Using “model�...

We’ve got two new podcasts from the Astronomy Cast team of Dr. Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain: Ep. 313: Precession, and Episode 314: Acceleration. (...)Read the rest of New Podcasts: Precession and Acceleration (171 words)...

Photographer Mike Black (mikeblackphotography.com) compiled this time-lapse of the crescent Moon and the Morning Star together on September 8th in Belmar, NJ.

This cool space wallpaper shows an optical color image of galaxies overlaid with X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

A tiny body (circled) orbits just ahead of Uranus...for now (Image: Mike Alexandarsen) A telescopic survey looking for trans-Neptunian objects has chanced across a 37 mile wide chunk of rock... --

Thrust cells of the Linear Aerospike engine are tested.

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Did NASA fake the moon landing? Is the government hiding Martians in Area 51? Is global warming a hoax? The answer to these questions is, “No,” yet a committed subculture of conspiracy... --

ESA Space Science: Space science image of the week: a dwarf galaxy resembles a distant flock of flying birds

The night sky tonight (Sept. 8) brings stargazers one of the last few good opportunities to glimpse the ringed wonder of our solar system -- the planet Saturn -- in the evening sky, with Venus and a crescent moon joining...