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A huge asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been the only cosmic event to cause mass extinctions or change Earth's climate.

See photos of Orbital Sciences's first Cygnus spacecraft test flight to the International Space Station launching on an Antares rocket in September 2013. The mission launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virgin...

Changes in plasma levels around Voyager I revealed that the 70s era spacecraft had entered interstellar space. But even in interstellar space, Voyager is still under the influence of the sun.

Need a little inspiration to go out and do some stargazing this weekend? Look no further than this gorgeous timelapse by Jack Fusco. There are awesome views of both sea and sky, the Milky Way, star trails, awesome cloud ...

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EPSC2013 Press releases: Changes in surface brightness on Titan observed over four years by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have added to evidence that cryovolcanism is active on Saturn's largest Moon. Anezina Solomonidou has ...

A photo captured by NASA shows a frog at the launch site of the LADEE rocket.

The next few nights are the best times of the month to observe the surface of the moon with telescopes, binoculars or even your naked eye. Here is how to see it.

A recent report shows that major programs within the Department of Energy are billions of dollars over budget due to lax oversight, yet the congressional committees responsible for the Department

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The glittering specks in this image that resemble a distant flock of flying birds are the stars that make up the dwarf galaxy ESO 540-31. Captured in this new image from the NASA/ESA H...

An international team of astronomers have for the first time found a jet of high-energy particles emanating from a dying star. The discovery, by a collaboration of scientists from Sweden, Germany and Australia, is a cruc...

Yesterday, NASA announced that as of August 2012, Voyager 1 is in a new frontier to humanity: interstellar space. Our most distant spacecraft is now in a region where the plasma (really hot gas) environment comes more fr...

ESA Top News: After more than four years mapping Earth's gravity with unrivalled precision, GOCE's mission is nearing its end and the satellite will soon reenter our atmosphere.

Astronauts from the United State, Japan and Europe are practicing spacewalks on the ocean floor this week at the Aquarius undersea laboratory in Florida. See how their mock Space Environment Analog for Testing EVA System...

Guppies lie about mate choice to trick rivals by Anne-Marie Hodge : When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game. To get around this predicament, a... --

Our favorite astro-poet, Stuart Atkinson, has written a wonderful ode to Voyager 1 in commemoration of the spacecraft reaching interstellar space. Stu has a knack for turning science into poetry! The First Starship (...)...

Take a deep breath and dive under the ocean with ESA and NASA astronauts, who recently arrived at the underwater habitat Aquarius to train for life in space at the bottom of the sea.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: September 13, 2013: In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope spotted unusually small galaxies densely packed with red stars in the distant, young universe. They were nicknamed "red ...

ESA Top News: The Living Planet Symposium has come to a close in Edinburgh, and a week of talking about past, present and future satellite missions, as well as the scientific challenges facing us, has prepared Earth obse...

EPSC2013 Press releases: After a journey of almost ten years, the Rosetta mission has just a few months left to wait before beginning its rendezvous with a time capsule. Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko is a dirty snowball...

Astronaut Cady Coleman had just completed watching Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" when the actress called her for advice on the space film 'Gravity.' The catch? The astronaut was living on the International Space Sta...

Stargazing photographer B.G. Boyd captured these two beautiful images of the night sky over Arizona, showing the famed Big Dipper star pattern and the Milky Way galaxy. Here's how he did it.