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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The sun emitted its sixth significant flare since Oct. 23, 2013. The latest flare peaked at 11:26 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2013.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has concluded that disaggregation of space assets to render them less vulnerable to attack is not all it's cracked up to be and that one way to cut space program costs is to limit government...

The mass distribution of stars is called the initial mass function, or IMF for short, and it characterizes the properties not only of our Milky Way, but of all the other galaxies we observe as well. But is the IMF consta...

Of course you do! (Who doesn’t?) And so here’s a wonderful tour of our Solar System to provide you with just the type of space you need. (...)Read the rest of Do You Need Some Space? (169 words) © Jason Major for Un...

A powerful typhoon hit the Philippines on Friday and moved out to the South China Sea:

Supernovae are intensely bright objects. They are formed when a star reaches the end of its life with a dramatic explosion, expelling most of its material out into space.

The sun emitted its sixth significant flare since Oct. 23, 2013, peaking at 11:26 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosp...

ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano reviews a few of the more than 30 experiments he performed while on board the International Space Station including testing astronaut food, metal alloy crystallization, capturing the Cygnus s...

Two interacting galaxies shine in the constellation Triangulum in this spectacular image.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has now returned more than 200 trillion bits of data.

On 4 October 2013, NASA acquired 560+ images from the MESSENGER spacecraft orbiting Mercury. Hundreds of miles of scorched, asteroid impacted surface have been compiled and set to the 'HI-FI SCI-FI' sounds of Atom Strang...

The Sun is finally acting like it's in solar maximum. Our Sun has emitted dozens of solar flares in since Oct. 23, 2013, with at least six big X-class flares. Just today it blasted out a X1.1 flare at 04:32 UT (11:32 p.m...

Set to launch on Nov 18th, 2013, the orbiter seek to rewind the planet's geologic history back to the wet, warm epoch that might have spawned life. MAVEN's instruments may help scientists understand why the planet lost m...

Super-typhoon Haiyan, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the U.S. Saffir-Simpson scale, struck the central Philippines municipality of Guiuan at the southern tip of the province of Eastern Samar early Friday morning...

EU governments closed ranks Friday in a bid to resuscitate their moribund carbon emissions market meant to combat global warming, just three days ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Warsaw.

This week the Olympic torch took a slight detour from its celebratory trek across Russia---to the International Space Station. In anticipation of the XXII Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the silver scepter took off Wednes...

Solar radiation, trapped by our atmosphere, keeps Earth warm. But if human activity is making it too warm, Stanford scientists have developed a panel that can return heat to space. Is this a tool for future geo-engineeri...

Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines (13:00 UTC 07/11/2013)....

Take a ride on the Mercury express and see what MESSENGER sees in these two new videos! Each made from over 280 Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) images taken at intervals of four seconds, the videos give us a first-class seat o...

See amazing solar eclipse and night sky photos taken by SPACE.com readers in November 2013 in this amateur astronomer image gallery.

Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated....

Satellite machine-to-machine messaging services provider Orbcomm said its strategic partnership with mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat will help standardize the still-chaotic M2M industry and give Orbcomm a glo...