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This image shows the Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil's rainforest. About 70 km west of the area pictured is the city of Manaus - the capital of Amazonas state....

From an orange Orion nebula to glowing auroras, don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

From a stunning image of Saturn to a black hole's indigestion, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Oct. 19, 2013.

Soon, Virgin Galactic could be ferrying more than tourists to space on its suborbital flights. The company that aims to be the world's first commercial "spaceline" also plans to give scientists and educators the chance t...

What at first glance might appear to be a piece of abstract art is actually a photo made using a 180mm lens from approximately 226 nautical miles above Earth featuring the very wide Amazon River floodplain at Santarem, B...

One of the Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this night photograph on Sept. 25 featuring the northern California region including San Francisco and San Francisco Bay on the west coast...

Some pieces of rock that fell to Earth from space are indeed from Mars, new measurements reveal.

As of Oct. 9, 2013, comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) is still alive. That's the verdict from a Hubble Space Telescope image taken on that day. At a distance of 280 million kilometers (175 million miles), the comet presented a fine...

NASA: Kepler News and Features: Scientists discover the first multi-planet system in which the equator of the host star is misaligned with the orbital planes of its planets.