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From the Cat's Eye to the Eskimo, planetary nebulae are arguably among the most dazzling objects in the Universe. These misnamed stellar remnants are created when the outer layers of a dying star blows off and expands in...

High-speed debris from satellite explosions could cause a catastrophic chain reaction, as seen in the movie "Gravity."

"Winner" of the "People and Space" category in the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition, this space wallpaper is a deceptively simple shot of figures silhouetted against a risi...

A beer brewed with moon dust might sound like a lunatic idea, but it is now a reality thanks to a Delaware brewery and the company behind NASA's Apollo spacesuits.

The outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, are far from the sun and catch few of its rays, making them dim and hard to find. Uranus, for example, reaches opposition with the sun on Thursday (Oct. 3), when it will be closest ...

It's one thing to love astronomy so much that you live and breathe the stuff. But how about actually drinking it? Now, thanks to the Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, you can even do that. The brewpub is offering, for a ...

The U.S. government shutdown has broken the links to many federal websites, but a vital source of information about sun storms remains available. The website of the Space Weather Prediction Center will continue to be mai...

A sun storm erupted on Monday (Sept. 30), sending a huge cloud of charged particles streaking into space. That cloud -- known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME -- hit Earth's magnetic field at around 10 p.m. EDT on Tues...

During the CAVES 2013 mission, astronauts from NASA, ESA and CSA spent two weeks in the dark, cold and serene interior of the Sa Grutta cave in a Supramonte mountain in Sardinia to simulate Mars-like exploration.

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: It looks just like a memory stick but that is where the similarity ends. Inside, the tiny black box is far more sophisticated, contains considerably more...

Swiss Space Systems plans to launch a new private space plane carrying the space junk-cleaning satellite CleanSpace One by 2018, and the launch just might lift off from North America.

Once-active “supervolcanoes” in northern Mars likely spewed ash and dust thousands of miles away, producing powdery deposits noticed by the NASA’s Curiosity and Opportunity rovers closer to the equator, a new study...

It’s not much to look at, but there it is: the incoming comet ISON (aka C/2012 S1) as seen by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. An enlarged version of one of four just-released images, this...

Ancient Mars may have harbored giant, explosive "supervolcanoes," new research suggests. By examining an extremely old part of Mars called the Arabia Terra region, scientists have found what could be the remnants of a su...

Several craters on the surface of the Red Planet were thought to be created by meteors, but a new investigation of Arabia Terra, Mars is showing likely evidence of massive eruptions millions of years ago.

Several Indian news sites posted a press wire article this morning indicating that India's Mars Orbiter Mission departed its assembly and testing facility in Bangalore today and is now on the way to the coastal launch si...

As Day 2 of the United States government shutdown continues, some short-term effects are already in evidence when it comes to Earth and space. Most of the NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) w...

Cosmologists have achieved a first detection of a long-sought component in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), known as B-mode polarisation, caused by gravitational lensing, the bending of light by massive structures ...

To shoot his "love song to space," director/co-writer Cuarón and his team had to invent new cinema technologies, while exploring the deep metaphors around humans in orbit. He spoke with SPACE.com's @DavidSkyBrody about ...

"The early sun was actually dimmer than the sun today, so in terms of sunlight, the asteroid belt would have been even colder than it is now. And yet we know that some asteroids were heated to the temperature of...

The Talon flew as a mission support aircraft while at Langley from 1972 to 1980.

Comet ISON made its closest approach to Mars yesterday (October 1, 2013) at a distance of 10.5 million km (6.5 million miles). While we await to find out if attempts to image the comet by spacecraft on the surface and in...