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The moon and sun will team up to create a rare event Sunday (Nov. 3): a hybrid solar eclipse that could amaze eclipse chasers across eastern North America, the Atlantic Ocean and Africa. But you don't have to hop on a pl...

George Whitesides, the CEO of Virgin Galactic, will give a special presentation at the 2013 meeting for the Association of Science Writers in Gainsville Florida. The presentation will begin at 1:30 pm Pacific Standard Ti...

Many lucky people around the world were treated to a an unusual "hybrid" solar eclipse today — so called because the extent to which the Sun was blocked out varied around the world. Those along North America’s east c...

While it’s true that there’s no air to carry sound in space, starship explosions would be strangely silent and no one can hear you scream, this latest Science @ NASA video reminds us that “space can make music, if ...

Despite rain and overcast skies residents of southern Gabon got a glimpse Sunday of a total eclipse of the sun, a rare phenomenon also visible in eastern Africa.

With the diminishing odds that our solar system supports advanced forms of life, the nearest stars become ever more attractive candidates for discovery. And among the stars with possible habitable planets is the Alpha Ce...

A rare hybrid solar eclipse, which include partial and total eclipses of the sun, wowed skywatchers around the world, from North America to Africa, on Sunday (Nov. 3). See amazing photos of the strange solar eclipses.

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The second American astronaut to orbit the Earth was remembered Nov. 2 by his family and friends during a private funeral service and public memorial at St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder. Scott Carpenter, 88, died O...

"When the Earth formed some 4.5 billion years ago, it was a sterile planet inhospitable to living organisms," said Sankar Chatterjee, Horn Professor of Geosciences and curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech ...

If you're within a couple of hundred light years of Tucson, Arizona this Nov. 16 and 17, you should seriously consider attending the Science and Astronomy Expo being held at the convention center there. There will be tal...

Deep in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn is continuing its smooth, silent flight toward dwarf planet Ceres. Far behind it now is the giant protoplanet Vesta, which the spacecraft transformed from a t...

India began a countdown Sunday to the launch of its most ambitious and risky space mission to date, sending a probe to Mars which was conceived in just 15 months on a tiny budget.

(Penn State) The Chinese Academy of Sciences has honored Péter Mészáros, of Penn State University, by awarding him the 2013 Einstein Professorship.

Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientifi...

From a Witch's Broom Nebula to a spectacular 3D Mars Video, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Nov. 2, 2013.