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From an amazing MAVEN spacecraft launch toward the Red Planet to stunning images by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Nov. 23, 2013.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has descended to its planned low altitude orbit and begun capturing science data on its ground breaking mission to study the Moon...

From the dazzling nighttime rocket launch to a spectacular set of photos showing the evolution of Comet ISON over the last few months, don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

Comet ISON is heading towards its inexorable close pass of the Sun, which will occur on November 28, 2013. And while we’ve been enjoying great views from astrophotographers, that luxury is probably over as of today, as...

NASA resumed the Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop, which was postponed due to the recent government shutdown, between November 20-22. During the make-up days NASA continued to examine the many good ideas that ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a 10-month journey to Mars. MAVEN will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphe...

This months video highlights the International Space Stations Program Scientist's Top 10 research results thus far as NASA and its partners celebrate the stations 15th anniversary....

It was the greatest exinction event of all time (at least by Earth standards): Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet has had some close calls. In the last 500...

The potentially dazzling Comet ISON is currently visible to the unaided eye, but its future all depends in how it reacts to a close Thanksgiving encounter with the sun, co

So, my fellow Whovians, today is the day: the airing of the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, "The Day of the Doctor". It's playing on the BBC, of course, but also on BBC America at 19:50 UTC (2:50 p.m. EST), so us...

There are approximately 620,000 asteroids that are tracked in our Solar System. This number represents less than one percent of the estimated objects that orbit the Sun. Now, a new space-age venture, Planetary Resources,...

It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forward for so long....

As NASA prepares to launch a new Martian probe, a Florida State University scientist has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust....

The December sky neatly frames the nearest and farthest stars visible to northern viewers.

JAXA's ISS Program Manager Masazumi Miyake explains how 3 nanosatellites (aka cubesats) were deployed from the Japanese 'Kibo' Experimental Module on Nov. 19. 2013.

Gacrux is a variable star that blows strong winds through its system.

On sol 3485 Opportunity pulled up next to a large outcrop here on the rim of Endeavour crater. The outcrop appears to be impact breccias like those we saw a few sols ago lower down on the ridge. But the texture of the ro...

The document calls on federal agencies to continue supporting the development of private American spaceships to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit and directs NASA to keep working on a heavy-lift rocket to send...

Night Sky Photographer Mike Taylor has photographed fantastic Northern Lights displays, and then modified the captured images to reflect the less-dramatic colors and hues seen by the naked eye.

Photographs capture the full colors in aurora displays, unlike the human eye.

As comets ISON and Encke continue toward their respective rendezvous with the Sun, they have now both been captured on camera by NASA’s solar-observing STEREO spacecraft. The image above, taken on Nov. 21 (UT) with STE...

The agency will pick a winner, or winners, no later than September 2014.