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Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers around the world looked at the faded debris and concluded it was an “ex-comet.” NASA wrapped up an...

Yesterday, comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) zoomed over the surface of the Sun, barreling through the star's intolerable heat and light. We all waited on the edge of our seats to see what would happen, and amazingly, a few hours l...

This time-lapse space wallpaper shows Comet ISON approaching and leaving during its slingshot around the sun -- represented by the white circle -- on Nov. 28, 2013. The ISON images clearly outline the curve of the comet'...

If farmers can't change the weather - or a seesawing climate - perhaps data-crunchers can outwit Mother Nature.

Across Europe, more student teams than ever before are drawing up their plans for launching CanSats. These tiny 'satellites' fit into a drinks can yet perform a scientific 'mission' when launched from a small rocket....

Scientists have used satellite observations to create a set of high-resolution 3D maps of the entire Great Barrier Reef - a critical step towards identifying, managing and protecting what lies beneath the waters....

Reports of Comet ISON's demise may have been premature. Its nucleus may still be intact and the coma is brightening as of Nov. 29, 2013 although the outbound ISON seems smaller after its encounter with Sol.

In 1971 I was being trained to work with the airbrush by the map artists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Branch of Astrogeologic Studies in Flagstaff. However, the project I ended up spending about a quarter of a man-yea...

Pennsylvania State University is racing to be the first college on the moon. Since 2011, a team of faculty, researchers, and students has been hatching "Lunar Lion," a robotic spacecraft that is four feet in diameter and...

THIS is good scicomm. Why? Well, for many reasons – good writing, good sound, good editing – but by far the most apparent, the reason most people will sit up and take note is because of... --

IAU Press Releases: A new platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed astronomy education activities has been launched by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development at the ESA/Galileo Teachers Training Program Workshop, Le...

Today: 53P KURS-NA Checkout: 53P performed a rendezvous demo/flyby today. This demonstration was used to check out the new KURS-NA System. During today's flyby, the closest point of approach was 1.6 km. The KURS-NA Syste...

The sun is fading, the temperature is dropping and this desert party is just getting started.

NASA is debuting a new engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge is a more complex follow-on to the successful NASA...

Starting in December, NASA will show the public the International Space Station in new ways that will highlight all the scientific research, cutting-edge technology testing and even the wonder of living and working in sp...

Hello everyone – my name is Becky Smethurst and I’m the latest addition to the Galaxy Zoo team as a graduate student at the University of Oxford. This is my first post (hopefully of many more) on the Galaxy Zoo blog ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This sprinkling of cosmic glitter makes up the galaxy known as ESO 149-3, located some 20 million light-years away from us. It is an example of an irregular galaxy, characterized by it...

SpaceX will take several days to examine the causes of a slower-than-expected increase in pressure in the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage cryogenic oxygen tank that forced a last-second scrub of the planned Nov. 28 launch.

If all goes well, expect another moon robot very soon. The Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”) rover will lift off from China as a part of the Chang'e-3 mission — target launch date Sunday (Nov. 29) — to explore the moon’s Se...

Call it a cosmic holiday miracle. The much-anticipated Comet ISON appeared to disintegrate during its Thanksgiving Day slingshot around the sun Thursday, but something -- it seems -- may have survived.

The big news around astronaut circles these days is the assignment of Takuya Onishi — from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency — to Expedition 48/49 around June 2016. Onishi is from the class of 2009, and we’...

Brazil's national telecommunications provider, Telebras, finalized a contract with Visiona Space Technology to provide a civil-military satellite communications system.