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The Iranian newspaper Jomhuri Eslami reported that the Islamic Republic aims to blast a monkey into space sometime in the next month, according to the French news agency AFP. The liftoff would advance the nation's plans ...

We’ve got a pretty bright Moon, but that just means we’ve got another target for the Virtual Star Party. Tonight we had beautiful views of the Moon from David Dickinson and Cory Schmitz, and then some deep sky object...

The moon will pass through Earth's faint outer shadow on Friday, with the time of deepest eclipse occurring at 7:50 p.m. EDT (2350 GMT). The effect of such a "penumbral eclipse" will be subtle, but it's still worth a loo...

The astronauts caught sight of an eerie view outside of the International Space Station last week. On Oct. 10, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano took to Twitter to share photo...

Engineers with the Indian Space research Organisation prepare the country's first Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission, for its fall 2013 launch toward the Red Planet.

NASA programs have all but come to a standstill since the government shutdown started on Oct. 1, but astronauts Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins continue to send a steady stream of social media posts the International Space...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Oct. 10 named Oleg Ostapenko, a former commander of the Russian Space Forces, as the new director-general of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos.

The new commercial space plane, called Dream Chaser, was slated to make a major free-flight test slated on Oct. 5 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California.

We face immensity and a taste of things to come in the first episode of Cosmos, but we're also provided with the tools to comprehend our own place within the universe.

Neptune is much too faint to be seen with the unaided eye, but right now you can see the blue planet shine just by using binoculars.

In the middle of a budget crisis that has kept the federal government partially closed since Oct. 1, former NASA officials argued that the time has come to push for increased spending on space exploration.

Engineers preparing NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle for a 2014 test flight were locked out of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when the federal government shut down Oct. 1.

This is an absolutely awesome view of the latest test flight of the SpaceX Grasshopper. The footage is shot with a camera attached to a hexacopter drone, and provides the closest view yet during a Grasshopper test of the...

An experimental and reusable rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared to new heights earlier this month.

The Lunar Module known as Spider shown still attached to the Saturn IVB stage in earth orbit prior to docking with Apollo 9's Command/Service module known as Gumdrop.

An alien planet thought to be made largely of diamond may be less than glittering inside. A new study shows that the super-Earth's carbon-to-oxygen ratio may not be as high as previous research suggested.

You can always count on an eclipse to get you out of a delicate situation. Today is Columbus Day in the United States and Thanksgiving north of the border in Canada. Later this week also marks the start of the second ecl...

The meteor explosion over Russia in February 2013 raised concerns that even small asteroid impactors may wreak some havoc given our heavily populated cities. A new study by NASA scientists aimed to improve our understand...

Today's Most Popular: A primordial star discovered in 2012 at the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy upsets current theories of star formation in the universe. The star simply shouldn't exist since it lacks the material...

The spacecraft exited a protective "safe mode" and is operating normally.

A UA-led group of astronomers has completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way - pockets shrouded in gas and dust where new stars are being born. Each cloud is a potent brew of primordial hydrog...