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As NASA and the European Space Agency prepare their remote photojournalists – Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers – to capture photos of Comet ISON’s flyby of Mars ear...

From a stunning view of the Milky way to the harvest moon, don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

From a supersonic shockwave to the glowing harvest moon, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Sept. 28, 2013.

Chinese space officials are rolling out a welcome mat to other nations eager to gain access to their future space station. China plans to launch a second space laboratory by 2015, an experimental space station in 2018 an...

Here is a trivia question: Not including Earth, how many planets are visible without using any optical aid, be it binoculars or a telescope? Most people will usually answer five: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn....

The map marks the clearest view yet of the Milky Way's central region, a huge cloud of 10,000 million stars. The peanut-shaped bulge puts the Milky Way well within normal galactic expectations for a barred spiral galaxy.

On the sixth anniversary of leaving Earth to embark on a daring deep-space expedition, Dawn is very, very far from its erstwhile planetary residence. Now humankind's only permanent resident of the main asteroid belt betw...

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Fewer than 600 of NASA's 18,000 or so employees would likely keep working through a shutdown -- the minimum needed to help ensure the safety of human life and the protection of property, according to a plan the space age...