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NEW YORK -- Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Canada's first commander of the International Space Station, visited SPACE.com's office this afternoon and you can watch the full video of our webcast interview with him.

(Phys.org) --A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to th...

The Canadian astronaut that took the world by storm with a series of videos from the International Space Station stopped by the SPACE.com office to share his stories.

Comet ISON is edging closer and closer to its brush with the sun, but it's behavior is perplexing skywatchers, with the comet not brightening as much as expected.

Iridium officials expressed surprise at what they said appears to be a market-wide slackening of demand for satellite handsets.

Understanding Earth's dynamic climate requires knowledge of more than just greenhouse gases. One of the key measurements scientists measure is reflected solar radiance, or the amount of outgoing sunlight energy scattered...

(Phys.org) --Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very L...

The touchdown target for China's Chang'e 3 mission -- a lander and a lunar rover -- is thought to be Sinus Iridum, known as the Bay of Rainbows, a plain of basaltic lava on the moon, according to reports by China media o...

A U.S.-Japanese industrial team has finalized the design of the largest planned member of the SM-3 interceptor family.

Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (V...

The Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General said it has begun a "quality assurance assessment" of the EKV.

The Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General said it has begun a "quality assurance assessment" of the EKV.

The excitement is really building toward India's first-ever attempt at an interplanetary spacecraft! Launch day is quickly approaching for the Mars Orbiter Mission. In this lengthy post, I provide answers to frequently a...

There's nothing more scary for Halloween than a typhoon, and the residents in Luzon, in the northern Philippines are being lashed by Typhoon Krosa today, Oct. 31.

Although a significant build-up in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would alter worldwide precipitation patterns, a widely discussed technological approach to reduce future global warming would also interfere with rain...

An exploding star in our home galaxy might be visible to Earth in the next 50 years, astronomers say in a new calculation of the odds of a nearby supernova. This explosion would be too faint to prove a hazard to Earthlin...

A radio telescope once used to track ballistic missiles has helped astronomers determine how the magnetic field structure and rotation of the young and rapidly rotating Crab pulsar evolves with time.

Boo! Here’s a great shot of the Witch Head nebula, so named because it resembles the profile of a wicked witch. This nebula’s ‘official’ name is IC 2118, and it is just a cloud of interstellar gas and dust — no...

America's once-abundant tallgrass prairies--which have all but disappeared--were home to dozens of species of grasses that could grow to the height of a man, hundreds of species of flowers, and herds of roaming bison.

A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long rise in Earth's surface temperatures. But rather than letting humans off the...

Every now and again, I get a sudden reminder that Mars is not just an ochre point of light in the sky. It's a world. Points of light have no dimension, just color and magnitude. But worlds are rich, diverse, with varying...

The minds behind "Ender's Game" had a little help bringing their version of the beloved book by Orson Scott Card to life.