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Tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 19, tens of millions of residents up and down the US East coast have another opportunity to watch a spectacular night launch from NASA's Wallops Island facility in Virginia – weather permitting. ...

We're now less than two weeks away from comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) reaching perihelion and, if we're honest, we are still none the wiser as to how the situation might play out!

NASA's newest moon orbiter LADEE is zapping data back to Earth via laser beam as part of a push to develop sophisticated interplanetary communications systems that don't rely on radio waves.

Czech universities and firms have received the go-ahead to conduct scientific research on board an American space tourism aircraft, the Czech Space Office (CSO) said Tuesday.

This beautiful space wallpaper shows the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft onboard at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is headed for a cluster of strange buttes that have been newly named in honor of Bruce Murray, a pioneer of planetary geology, who died earlier this year.

U.S. government officials expect to complete in early 2014 a final draft of regulations that will remove some satellite hardware and technology from the U.S. Munitions List.

The sun shot out a powerful solar flare early Tuesday (Nov. 19) morning. Though the flare was not pointed directly at Earth, it did cause a radio blackout at 5:26 a.m. EST (1026 GMT), when the sun fired off the flare, sp...

For the first time, astronomers are able to accurately simulate galaxies from shortly after the big bang to today by including a realistic treatment of the effects stars have on their host galaxies. (...)Read the rest of...

A glowing lagoon off Puerto Rico's northeast coast has gone nearly dark and biologists on Tuesday were trying to find out why.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Aerospace engineer Neerav Shah believes in collaboration because two smart people are smarter than one smart person.

One or more fragments may have detached from comet ISON in the past days, as two wing-shaped features in the comet's atmosphere suggest....

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged governments to put forth more ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, saying "current pledges are simply inadequate."

The ASRG has been touted by NASA as a solution to the limited supply of plutonium-238 available for future missions.

For nearly as long as astronomers have been able to observe asteroids, a question has gone unanswered: Why do the surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than meteorites -- the remnants of asteroids that have crashed to...

During that heady time when NASA was sending people to the moon, Apollo astronaut Al Shepard — so the story goes — was showing comedian Bob Hope around a NASA center. Hope went into a simulator for the lighter lunar ...

My brother and I enjoyed watching Reading Rainbow as kids, so it's a delight for me to have had a guest post published on their blog last week. I wrote for them about how kids (with the help of their parents) can follow ...

The United States military's ORS-3 mission is slated to blast off Tuesday night carrying 29 different satellites -- the most ever in a single launch. Here is a description of most of the satellites provided by the U.S. O...

Ending NASA's human spaceflight program could save the United States roughly $73 billion between 2015 and 2023.

A strong undersea earthquake shook eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.

The planet Mercury is known in some circles as the "elusive planet," but over the next two weeks, skywatchers will have an excellent opportunity to see Mercury in the early morning dawn sky.

Researchers now have stronger evidence of granite on Mars and a new theory for how the granite - an igneous rock common on Earth -- could have formed there, according to a new study. The findings suggest a much more...