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Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), showing more clearly than ever the bulge at its core. Previous explanations suggested that the stars that form the bul...

A NASA spacecraft has captured its best video yet of the icy Comet ISON streaking toward a Thanksgiving Day encounter with a sun, a cosmic encounter the comet might just not survive.

Comet ISON reaches perihelion at 18:25 UT (10:25 PT) on November 28. It's an event that's being watched around the world, accompanied by tons of commentary and streams of photos. We will update this blog entry periodical...

The GPS-aided AFSS uses tracking data independent from on-board vehicle instruments to calculate whether a rocket is on course after leaving the launch pad.

In the early hours of Nov. 27, 2013, Comet ISON entered the field of view of the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory....

Don't write off Chicken Little quite yet! A seven-year-old boy in Florida may have been struck by small meteorite fragments that fell to the ground as he was playing outside over the weekend, family members said.

If you live in the U.S., chances are good you’ll be munching on turkey tomorrow in celebration of Thanksgiving. But millions of miles above your head, Comet ISON will make its closest pass to... --

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – MOM is looking at you, kid! And if the spectacular new image of billions of Earth's children captured by India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is any indication (see above), then we can expect absolut...

Some 160,000 light years away towards the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish), is an amazing area of starbirth and death. Located in our celestial neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, this huge stellar forge sculpts...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Core Satellite takes its last giant step here on Earth with its arrival at its launch site at Tanegashima Island Space Center in Japan.

You can even celebrate Thanksgiving in space. Tomorrow (Nov. 28), people all over the United States will chow down on turkey, cranberries, desserts and other special dishes in honor of Thanksgiving, and Americans in spac...

(Phys.org) --Gemini observations support an unexpected discovery in the galaxy Messier 101. A relatively small black hole (20-30 times the mass of our Sun) can sustain a hugely voracious appetite while consuming material...

The incredible luminosity of a black-hole system known as ULX-1 may force a rethink of the leading theories that explain how some black holes radiate energy, researchers said.

Imagine camping in the woods, when you hear what sounds like a chainsaw, but then see that the ruckus is coming from a tiny bird. The experience changes the way you think about little birds, right? And that's exactly wha...

Tropical Cyclone Lehar is weakening as it heads for a landfall in eastern India. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the storm nearing the coast today, November 27.

Air Force officials said the satellite was originally slated to enter services after 12 months of on-orbit testing, but based on lessons learned during testing of the SBIRS GEO-1 spacecraft they were able to truncate tha...

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, discovered two subglacial lakes 800 metres below the Greenland Ice Sheet. The two lakes are each roughly 8-10 km2, and at one point may have been up to three times la...

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) is looking good for its rendezvous with the Sun tomorrow! The picture above is a combination of three different views from space-based solar observatories taken at 16:45 UTC (11:45 EST) today. I'll...

An ESA official said the program now appears poised to deliver the first of the OHB satellites into orbit by mid-2014.

US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart.

“ISON Lives!!!” “ISON R.I.P…” Those are just some of the possible headlines that we’ve wrestled with this week, as Comet C/2012 S1 ISON approaches perihelion tomorrow evening. It's been a rollercoaster ride o...

"Exactly how intermediate-sized black holes would form remains an open issue," said Dominic Walton of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "Some theories suggest they could form in rich, dense clusters of st...