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A slice of eastern North America will undergo a weird and dramatic event early Sunday (Nov. 3) morning: a partial eclipse of the sun.

Adolf Schaller, an artist on the original Cosmos series, shares his experience of creating the painting, "Hunters, Floaters, and Sinkers" from Episode 2, which speculates about the possible life living in the turbulent a...

In a major new survey of the early universe conducted from the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the most distant, thus the earliest galaxy ever detected. Although other Hubble-based observations...

Europe's heaviest-ever cargo carrier to the International Space Station burned up in Earth's atmosphere Saturday in a controlled manoeuvre after a five-month mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

This isn't someone's frame grab of a decorative Halloween scene, although it was photographed on Halloween eve. It is actually a picture of the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, photographed by one of the Expedition 3...

I get it: Ender's Game is not a science movie, or even a hard sci-fi movie. In many ways it's barely sci-fi at all, falling closer to the coming-of-age hero fantasy narratives of Percy Jackson or (ducking) The Phantom Me...

During a news briefing at NASA headquarters officials and scientists discussed MAVEN, the agency's next mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch November 18 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MAVEN will study ...

ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Albert Einstein, completed its five-month mission to the International Space Station by reentering the atmosphere today and burning up safely over an uninhabited area ...

NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 29 to share information about Operation IceBridge's upcoming airborne field campaign in Antarctica....

One of the weirder concepts in astronomy is that telescopes are like time machines. Light travels at a finite speed -- it's incredibly fast: 300,000 kilometers per second -- but finite nonetheless. It takes a second or ...

Microbiome Investigation: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg performed her return minus 14 (R-14) day session of the Microbiome investigation. This included taking surface samples in the ISS, performing body sample collection...

Mammal body size decreased significantly during at least two ancient global warming events, a new finding that suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change, according to a University ...

ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Albert Einstein, completed its five-month mission to the International Space Station by reentering the atmosphere today and burning up safely over an uninhabited area ...

The potential 'comet of the century' is racing towards its date with the Sun on November 28th. Find out where it will be during its lead up to this fiery meeting.

The fmr. commander of the ISS reveals why he devouted time during his 5+ months in low Earth orbit to educate the public on how astronauts simply wash their hands, cook their food, play guitar and more in a series of wil...

We interrupt your regular Weekly Space Hangout for an hour-long special on Comet ISON, broadcast live from the Pacific Space Centre in Vancouver, BC. We’ve got special guests +Pamela Gay, +Nicole Gugliucci, +David Dick...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

On Sunday (Nov. 3) early risers along the east coast of the United States and beyond will be treated to a spectacular sunrise eclipse, provided the weather is clear.

The distinction between comets and asteroids is in principle a clear one, encoded right in the words themselves. Both terms come from Greek roots--“comet” descends from a word meaning... --