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Two cosmonauts will Saturday take the Olympic torch of Russia's upcoming Winter Games in Sochi for a historic spacewalk aimed at showcasing Moscow's prowess in science and sport.

Think Galapagos and you think nature in its most pristine expression. But the destructive weather phenomenon called El Nino turns coral reefs there a sickly white and sea iguanas scrawny.

Under the bill U.S. President Barack Obama signed Oct. 16 to end a two-week government shutdown, NASA Astrophysics is being funded at an annualized level of $607 million, roughly $50 million a month through mid-January.

Russian Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy took an unlit torch that will be used at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on a spacewalk. They were installing and replacing experiments and hardware for the I...

From a bizarre asteroid to the strongest solar flare of 2013, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Nov. 9, 2013.

From an astronaut's stunning images taken from space to an eclipse chaser's look at a rare solar eclipse, don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mapped the Earth's gravity with precision. Find out about the science it performed in this end of mission video.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland – Super Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the island nation of the Philippines, Friday, Nov. 8, with maximum sustained winds estimated at exceeding 195 MPH (315 kilometer per hour) ...

While there is, on average, only one supernova per galaxy per century, Hubble has revealed two back-to-back supernova explosions in spiral galaxy NGC 6984, which played host to one of these explosions back in 2012, known...

Two Russian cosmonauts on Saturday took the Olympic torch on its first-ever spacewalk after stepping out of the International Space Station three months ahead of the Sochi Winter Games.

Olympic history unfolded outside the International Space Station Saturday morning (Nov. 9) as Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy carried an unlit Olympic torch on a symbolic spacewalk relay for the 2014 ...

"Expecting to find a black hole in every galaxy is sort of like expecting to find a pit inside a peach," explains astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson. "With this Hubble observatio...

I know Halloween was a while back, but an image released by NASA came a bit too late for me to put up on the blog here. And while I've talked about this particular object before, it was taken by a different observatory, ...

Don't cry for the crippled Kepler space telescope — it was always meant to be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite has been orbiting Earth in super-low orbits since 2009, mapping out variations in Earth's gravity in extreme detail. But its fuel ran out in ...

If Russians can send the Olympic torch into space, why can't Americans find ways to inspire interest in space?

Crewmembers representing four different countries took part in a microgravity version of an Olympic relay after three new residents launched to the International Space Station carrying an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winte...

Whereas it used to be clear that some frequencies were all-military and some not, the recent incursion into military Ka-band, X-band and UHF-band frequencies by commercial operators has made it difficult to maintain the ...

Whereas it used to be clear that some frequencies were all-military and some not, the recent incursion into military Ka-band, X-band and UHF-band frequencies by commercial operators has made it difficult to maintain the ...

Whereas it used to be clear that some frequencies were all-military and some not, the recent incursion into military Ka-band, X-band and UHF-band frequencies by commercial operators has made it difficult to maintain the ...

Proposals for the Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract were due in May.

NASA spent $1.4 billion of its $1.8 billion SLS budget for 2013 on vehicle development, down from the $1.5 billion it spent in 2012.