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Launch preparations will resume for NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, due to launch to Mars on November 18th. Work had previously been suspended, potentially causing the spacecraft to miss its once-every-26-month launch opportuni...

A giant radio telescope in Chile has received the last piece of its 66-antenna array, a special delivery that will help the observatory peer into deep space better than ever.

Soon, you'll be able to watch people compete for a chance to fly to space from the comfort of your couch. An upcoming reality TV show picked up by NBC called "Space Race" will follow along as space fans compete to win a ...

Veteran astrophotographer P-M Heden of the photography group The World at Night (TWAN) captured this image of a meteor blazing over the Baltic Sea during the peak of the 2013 Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12 from the eas...

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I've been delving in to the Mars Express image archive this week, checking out its images of Phobos, and found a couple of really cool time-series of images to assemble into animations.

Astronomers Without Borders - those great folks who do science outreach around the world - is getting ready for the next solar eclipse, which takes place on November 3, 2013. A partial eclipse will be visible across a wi...

ESA employs 130 ton satellite dishes, dispersed in key areas all over the world to monitor the skies for transmissions. They boost faint signals from spacecraft and in reverse create high energy transmissions to relay co...

Credit: PF Productions Full disclosure: I cried at a movie about particle physics. And I wasn’t alone. As the film showed footage of the July 4, 2012 announcement of the Higgs boson... --

Today I received my furlough notice from NASA. Since my job isn't considered "excepted," in other words, since no one will be injured or die if I don't report for work, then I am to remain at home until recalled to work ...

The image above shows digital elevation data overlaid on daytime thermal infrared images of Eden Patera, which scientists suggest was an ancient supervolcano on Mars. Red colors are relatively high and purple-gray colors...

The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. Al...

SPACE.com readers sent in their scenes of spectacular sky sights seen in October 2013.

“Primordial hydrogen” sounds like a great name for a band. It’s also a great thing to find when you’re looking at a galaxy. This ancient gas is a leftover of the Big Bang, and astronomers discovered it in a faraw...

“Talk about a selfie!” wrote former astronaut Clay Anderson on Twitter yesterday (Oct. 1). He posted that comment along with a favorite photo from Expedition 15, when he was standing in restraints on the robotic Cana...

The Ames 5 degrees-of-freedom motion simulator allowed testing for multiple angular motions.

Astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Profuse flows of gas onto galaxies are believed to...

"I'm going where?" No, this isn’t The Onion… as a concerned consumer of all that is space news, you have indeed arrived at the cyber-doorstep of Universe Today. I’ll admit though, that we did do a double take about...

This space wallpaper, snapped by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star HD 184738, also known as Campbell's hydrogen star.

Ever stood outside looking at the aurora and felt as though it was swirling just a short distance above your head? It’s hard to judge altitude when looking at sky phenomena because there are few landmarks above us. (Th...

ESA Top News: ESA's technical heart will open its doors to the public on Sunday as part of World Space Week

As the spaceship slowly approaches Mars its captain is overcome by religious remorse. Though he is the mastermind behind the space station orbiting Earth, and hasn’t had any interest in the... --