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Saturn is so beautiful that it would be next to impossible to pick what would be my favorite picture of it ever. Impossible until now. Because HOLY HALEAKALA Croatian software developer and "amateur" astronomical image p...

Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star....

A NASA telescope is probing the atmospheres and temperatures of alien planets. Designed when the number of confirmed exoplanets could be counted on two hands, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has become a strong observer o...

How soon will people and machines become one? What are the ethical implications of living for hundreds or thousands of years? James Woods visits with LiveScience reporters @DavidSkyBrody and @JillScharr to explain his ne...

Astronaut Mike Hopkins, aboard the International Space Station, shared this picture of the northern lights on Oct. 9, 2013, saying "The pic doesn't do the northern lights justice....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Findings from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover confirm that some meteorites on Earth really came from the Red Planet.

Scientists have found the first multi-planet system that is tilted out of alignment with the host star. The star, known as Kepler-56, is about 45 degrees out of alignment from the orbital plane of a pair of planets.

Some astronomers have predicted that Comet ISON will break apart before its Nov. 28 close solar approach. But a new photo from NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope suggests that ISON remains intact, at least for now.

From biography to children's books to science fiction, graphic novels featured in a panel at this year's Comic Con all share a strong focus on storytelling that's based on real science.

We've been showing images of Comet ISON from amateur astronomers around the world, but now that NASA is back from the government shutdown, here's more proof that the comet is still intact and has not disintegrated … de...

In which I summarize Joe Veverka's Kuiper Prize talk at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting: "Small is NOT Dull: Unravelling the Complexity of Surface Processes on Asteroids, Comets and Small Satellites."

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The meteor that exploded over Russia in February was a violent reminder that our planet exists in a cosmic shooting gallery. Now, astronomers are trying to understand what these objects are made of and what kind of threa...

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research: Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy's got one. But here's a real conundrum: how did they grow so big? A paper in today's issue of Science pits the front-running...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The gauzy rings of Saturn and the dark side of the planet glow in newly released infrared images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

SpaceX managed to re-light the next-generation Falcon 9's nine-engine first stage twice during the Sept. 29 test flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, easing the stage's return to Earth over the Pacific Oc...

Isn’t that aurora facing the wrong way? Not if you’re in space! NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins tweeted this picture from his perch on the International Space Station a few days ago. He sounds jazzed to be on his first m...

In this stunning space wallpaper, taken with the Cassini wide-angle camera on June 6, 2012, the spacecraft looks toward the night side of Titan and sees sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere and...

in order to truly answer the unsolved mysteries of the moon's origin, new missions to retrieve samples of the lunar surface and return them to Earth will be needed, one scientist said.

SpaceX plans a December debut of a new test rig, known as Falcon 9R, and a new test site at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: The Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs cites confirmation of their work by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, in what Physics Division Director Natalie Roe call...

A best-selling book about the women behind America's early astronauts is being adapted for television by the creator of "Gossip Girl." ABC has given the "go" for the development of a limited series based on "The Astronau...