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While most Americans are looking forward to November 28 this year to (over)indulge in turkey and gratitude, astronomers have another reason to count down the days. That's when Comet ISON, the Great Comet of 2013, will re...

Developing story - NASA's Juno-bound Jupiter orbiter successfully blazed past Earth this afternoon (Oct. 9) and gained its huge and critical gravity assisted speed boost that's absolutely essential to reach the Jovian sy...

“Picture yourself in a boat on a river…” And make it a river of liquid hydrogen and helium deep within the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. You might not find a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, but you may very well ...

A quick post to say congratulations to new Galaxy Zoo science team member – Edmond Cheung, a PhD student from Santa Cruz – on the publication of his first Galaxy Zoo paper. Edmond approached us some time ago interest...

Cargo delivered to the International Space Station by Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft is now completely unloaded from the commercial resupply ship and aboard the orbiting laboratory.

His death leaves John Glenn as the last survivor of the Mercury 7.

I am very sad to write that American astronaut Scott Carpenter died today. He was 88 years old. You can read about his accomplishments on Collect Space and wikipedia; I won't belabor his detailed and lengthy record here....

Godspeed, Scott Carpenter. The United States' fourth astronaut to fly in space and the second to orbit the Earth, Scott Carpenter, 88, died on Thursday (Oct. 10) after suffering a recent stroke.

Former NASA scientist Fred Herrmann of Huntsville, Ala., sent SPACE.com this amazing view of Messier 17, a deep-sky object known as the Omega Nebula and many other names. See how he did it here.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) on Oct. 4 said it had signed an agreement with Teledyne Brown Engineering of the United States to place the first commercial Earth observation payload on the International Space Station ...

NASA's SOHO has imaged a small comet disintegrating on October 8th, 2013 and a larger on-track to burn up on October 10th.

One of the original "Mercury 7" astronauts, Scott Carpenter, has died. He was the sixth person to fly in space; the fourth American to fly in space and the second US astronaut to orbit Earth. Carpenter died on Thursday, ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the building blocks of solid planets that are capable of having substantial amounts of water....

A decimated planetary system around a distant star holds the relics of a giant asteroid that may have once been flooded with water. The finding offers intriguing clues as to how planets become... --

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Sunlike stars eventually become a compact body called a white dwarf, destroying its planets in the process.

The California Space Enterprise Center (CSEC) has formed an alliance with Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) to offer discounted memberships with Green2Gold and Space Entrepreneurship. SEDS memb...

Three of Jupiter's largest moons will cast their shadows simultaneously on the planet below them creating three solar eclipses at the same time: a rare cosmic event.

The researchers found signs of a rocky surface and lots of water around a white dwarf star called GD 61, marking the first time that these two kwy ingredients of a potentially habitable planet have been found together be...

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats If you go walking along the beach or take an ocean cruise, it's hard to believe that Earth is essentially a "dry" planet. Barely 0.02 percent of our...

Astronomers have found a lonely planet that's floating by itself in deep space without orbiting a star. It was detected in a search for brown drawfs using a telescope at the summit of Maui's Haleakala volcano, Pan-STARRS...

The origin of life on Earth is still a hotly-debated topic. There are many different theories on how life was kick-started, as well as various experiments underway attempting to understand the processes involved.