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The explosive collisions of icy comets with planets and moons generated the vital building blocks of life, spreading these necessary ingredients throughout the solar system, researchers say. Comets are known to possess o...

A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to people.

This time it’s really gone. Previous claims have been made, but NASA says that after a 35-year journey Voyager 1 has indeed reached interstellar space. And here’s the evidence : [SOUND]... --

A beautiful atmospheric effect wasn't the only thing hovering above John Chumack's observatory dome this weekend. A dragonfly flits over John's observatory in Dayton, Ohio, joining a spectacular solar halo, a ring around...

The Cygnus spacecraft, which is built by aerospace firm Orbital Sciences, passed its launch readiness review and is now set to lift off Wednesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, officials announced Monda...

These custom road signs at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility are, well, out of this world with awesomeness. They refer to the recent launch of the LADEE spacecraft to the Moon and the upcoming launch this week of the Orbi...

High-speed streams of charged particles from the sun may be to blame for recent failures of satellites that people rely on to watch TV and use the Internet, a new study finds.

Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus spacecraft will launch to the International Space Station Wednesday atop an Antares rocket.

Science@NASA: The full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox is coming this week. Don't miss the Harvest Moon.

This week leading up to the September equinox offers you a fine chance to catch an elusive phenomenon in the pre-dawn sky. We're talking about the zodiacal light, the ghostly pyramid-shaped luminescence that heralds the ...

Standing high in the northern part of the sky this week at around 11 p.m. local time is a spire-like figure of five stars pointing northward.

Moonrise for several days around the time of the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox occurs nearly at sunset. Before artificial lighting, this gave farmers extra time to cut and move ripened crops.

A few weeks ago I received an email pointing me to a really cool new map-based browser to Dawn's Vesta image data.

The space rock, named 2013 RZ53, was discovered on September 13th, 2013, by astronomers at the University of Arizona. It will come within 230,000 miles of the Earth on September 18th and is about 10 feet wide.

You’ve all heard of the “face on Mars” and the “man in the Moon” — well I guess this would be the “man on Mercury!” And I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere before… (...)Read the rest of Humanoid Shape...

Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard stands next to the "rickshaw."

Humanity has reached a bottleneck this century: Technical developments could cause catastrophic damage to the planet, or they could save us from our man-made quandary.

Icy volcanoes are likely responsible for changes in brightness on the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, according to a new study. Images with the Cassini spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectromete...

This space wallpaper shows the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy aboard, as it lands near the town of Zhezkazgan,...

Veteran night sky photographer Justin Ng of Singapore captured this spectacular photo of galaxies over East Java's Mount Bromo volcano at sunrise. See how he did it.

This Thursday's full moon carries the title of "Harvest Moon" for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. But what gives the special moon its name?

Alien moons around distant worlds may not be big enough to possess magnetic fields strong enough to protect extraterrestrial life from radiation that may blast it from deep space and nearby stars, researchers say.