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Procyon is a binary system, with a main-sequence larger star and a smaller white dwarf star orbiting each other.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Even though NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was never designed to study exoplanets, it has become one of the world's premier telescopes for probing these far-off worlds.

Veteran astrophotographers Terry Hancock of Fremont, Michigan and former NASA scientist Fred Herrmann of Huntsville, Ala., teamed up to capture this stunning image of turbulent region of star birth, the Lagoon Nebula. Se...

A new Soyuz is now on the pad, ready to bring the next crew to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for at 20:58 UTC (4:58 p.m. EDT) on September 25. This is the third Soyuz spacecraft to use the new abbr...

A fleet of spacecraft is gearing up to track the potentially dazzling Comet ISON as it flies by Mars next week. The comet will fly by Mars at a range of 6.5 million miles between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2.

NASA's public outreach program is looking for innovative ideas of locating hidden asteroids that lurk around our world. SPACE.com caught up with NASA's Andrew Filo at their Maker Faire booth.

Gemini Observatory : Predicted track of Quaoar during an occultation attempt on August 5, 2013. The shadow size is shown as the distance between the red lines. The red dots are Quaoar's position at 1 minute intervals.

After more than five years of testing, NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster ion engine has set a new duration record. The project completed a continuous test the ion engine for more than 48,000 hours -- over five and a hal...

The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this stunning space wallpaper make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is getting used to life with gravity again after five months aboard the International Space Station. In an interview with SPACE.com, he reflected on his stay, his harrowing spacewalk and the ...

Freeman Dyson in Princeton, 2012. Consider the set of brilliant twentieth century physicists. That’s an impressively large set. Now consider the set of brilliant physicists who contributed... --

Here's a fantastic view of our home planet taken by the Russian weather satellite Electro-L. And while Elektro-L can take gigantic photographs of the entire planet every 30 minutes, it only can get a fully-lit view like ...

Follow along with Roscosmos during the launch of Soyuz TMA-10M using this list of common Russian flight terms.

Slooh.com's Canary Islands Observatory captured asteroid 433 Eros seeming to fly with Comet ISON on September 24th, 2013. This 2nd largest near-Earth asteroid - which has been visited by the NEAR probe - is traveling fas...

NASA will host a public workshop to examine and synthesize 96 of the ideas submitted to a Request for Information (RFI) about the agency's asteroid initiative. The workshop will be held Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 at the Lunar and...

NASA and Development Projects Inc. (DPI) of Dayton, Ohio, have opened registration for the 2014 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Airspace Operations Challenge. The $500,000 prize competition is scheduled for April 2014 in...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe.

NASA has exercised the fourth option year under its existing contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Falls Church, Va.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is bringing his weird brand of science to a popular TV show and, so far, it seems to be paying off.

Two new programs about renewed interest in the technologies that will enable humanity to cross the interstellar gulf. Lou Friedman talks with Mat from the 100-Year Starship Symposium, while physicist and science fiction ...

Curiosity looked up after dark and captured more cool photos of Mars' moons. They include Phobos and Deimos passing in the night, and Phobos entering Mars' shadow.

ESA Top News: Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano snaps the Alps from space