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It took two major expeditions charting the solar eclipse of 1919 to verify Albert Einstein’s weird prediction about gravity -- that it distorts the path of light waves around stars and other... --

The galaxy weighs a whopping 200 million times more than the sun, packing half of this mass within 80 light-years of its center, according to observations from the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like wo...

For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system.

On Sunday, Sept. 29, the private spaceflight company SpaceX launched a new version of its Falcon 9 rocket in a successful test flight that included many firsts, including the firm's first-ever West Coast launch.

A brilliant fireball lit up the skies over the Midwest United States, treating bystanders on the ground to an amazing light show last Friday (Sept. 27).

NASA Breaking News: NASA astronauts Gregory Chamitoff and Ronald Garan are leaving the agency. Chamitoff is joining the faculty of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the University of Sydney in Australia...

See what's up in the night sky for October 2013, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this SPACE.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

This new app was just released from Vito Technologies and it will save you countless planning hours in your stargazing agendas. Vito Technologies, through a super secret process, has discovered a way to give users a sky ...

An Australian space photographer has won top spot in a global space photography competition, with a spectacular "star-riddled" photo of the Milky Way galaxy, a jaw-dropping image beat out more than 1,200 other entrants i...

The future of a possible "comet of the century" is still uncertain. With just two months to go before Comet ISON skims less than three-quarters of a million miles above the sun's surface, the comet could brighten or fade...

See winning entries of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 features the transit of Venus, comets, nebulas, auroras and more sent from astrophotographers around the world.

An ambitious one-day mission to observe the potentially dazzling Comet ISON with a telescope dangling from a colossal NASA balloon this weekend has failed due to a mechanical glitch, NASA officials say. The mission, call...

The vast amount of manmade debris in orbit around Earth is untenable, but emerging and currently available technologies could be used to get this space junk under control.

We’re wrapping up the daily sciart posts today. We hope you’ve enjoyed them! Stay tuned tomorrow for a round-up of the month’s artists and images. Typically, illustrators are... --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan.

The main ingredient in industrial plastic number 5, has been detected in the atmosphere of the Saturn moon. The propylene molecule was missing in Voyager 1's probe of the moon in 1980, and had baffled scientists until no...

Black holes are a spot in the universe where you won’t see the sun shine in, to paraphrase that 1960s rock-musical Hair. But speaking of “hair”, a group of scientists says these singularities may have matter (somet...

Comet ISON could shine brightly in the night sky around the time of its close solar approach on Nov. 28. Here's the lowdown on ISON and its journey through the inner solar system, which scientists are already tracking wi...

"We don't really know what they are," said Björn Benneke, a graduate student in astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology referring to intriguing exoplanets found that are bigger than our rocky, oceanic Ear...

NASA astronauts Gregory Chamitoff and Ronald Garan are leaving the agency. Chamitoff is joining the faculty of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the University of Sydney in Australia. Garan will work on...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.