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NASA has captured an amazing new photo of the brightening Comet ISON, an image that reveals the comet's tail ahead of its rendezvous with the sun next week.

Millionaire Dennis Tito has revised his plan to send a husband and wife around Mars in 2018 -- and is calling on NASA to take the lead role in the mission.

As the name implies, a brown dwarf is small… only about 7% the size of the Sun. As far as stellar senior citizens go, they’re cool. Zipping along through space at speeds of 100 to 200 kilometers per second, they may ...

NASA Breaking News: NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Vickie Kloeris, the agency's manager of the International Space Station food system, will discuss the space station's Thanksgiving menus in live satellite interviews f...

Next to a waning gibbous moon tonight (Nov. 21), the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, will be visible, along with four of its moons if you have a telescope.

(Phys.org) --On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as ...

Intelligent telescopes designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory got a front row seat recently for an unusual birth.

When a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, it collapses under its own weight and forms a black hole. The black hole shoots jets of particles through the star at nearly the speed of light and astronomers believe they c...

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos -- nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed...

The year's most-anticipated celestial visitor, Comet ISON, reaches peak visibility in the next couple weeks---and we're here to help you make the most of it! Join editors from Astronomy and Discover in this Google Hangou...

Sally Ride, the United States' first woman to fly into space, has been posthumously awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

NASA explains how a comet goes through the process of sublimation as it nears the Sun.

On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of...

Depending on what scientists propose for the Mars 2020 rover's instrument package, the ISRU technology demonstration also could include actual oxygen production.

There is a paper in press at Icarus by Xiaoduan Zou and five coauthors that provides the first peer-reviewed publication I've seen on the results of the imaging experiment performed during the Chang'e 2 flyby of near-Ear...

Another blow was dealt to deep space exploration this past weekend. The announcement comes from Jim Green, NASA's Planetary Science Division Director. The statement outlines some key changes in NASA's radioisotope progra...

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers found the first evidence of high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system. The findings open the door for a new era of astronomy that could reveal s...

Tropical Storm Melissa is spinning around in the north Central Atlantic Ocean after becoming tropical on Nov. 18. On Nov. 19, Melissa is expected to convert to a post-tropical storm. NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured i...

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers found the first evidence of high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system. The findings open the door for a new era of astronomy that could reveal s...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured visible and infrared imagery of slow-moving Tropical Storm Helen as it was spreading its western clouds over parts of southeastern India on November 21.

Scientists have found a huge but diffuse ring of dust near the orbit of Venus, marking the second time such a structure has been discovered in our solar system. The dust ring stretches about 137 million miles from end to...

By D. Setton A mammoth neutrino experiment near the South Pole has, for the first time, detected high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system. The 28 neutrinos captured by the IceCube detector had a billion times m...