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This month marks the 20th anniversary of STS-61, the space-shuttle mission that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope's faulty optics. Last week, MIT hosted a symposium to commemorate the mission and to celebrate Hubble's ...

Hans Bethe: Freeman Dyson called Bethe the "supreme problem solver of the twentieth century" (Image: Cornell Chronicle) Hans Bethe was one of the greatest and most versatile scientists of the... --

See images of the space shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, STS-61, STS-82, STS-103, STS-109 and STS-125.

After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There's no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun and there...

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel airborne mission known as HS3 wrapped up for the 2013 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season at the end of September, and had several highlights. HS3 will return to NASA's Wallops Fli...

We’ve seen some great views from space of erupting volcanoes, like Pavlov, Shiveluch, and Nabro. While most of the views from space look straight down in a in a nadir view, this photo was taken from the International S...

See what's up in the night sky for December 2013, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this SPACE.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

NASA said Monday that the Hubble Space Telescope is the best bet for figuring out whether Comet ISON disintegrated during its brush with the sun last week.

China's first lunar rover is now bound for the moon, having launched Dec. 1 on a mission that -- if successful -- will establish China as the third nation to soft land a spacecraft on Earth's natural satellite.

Now that autumn is fading into winter, the beautiful winter Milky Way is coming into view in the eastern sky.

A research expedition to the Arctic, as part of the Catlin Arctic Survey, has revealed that tiny crustaceans, known as copepods, that live just beneath the ocean surface are likely to battle for survival if ocean acidity...

Comets can spend billions of years out in the Oort Cloud, and then a few brief moments of terror orbiting the Sun. These are the sun grazers. Some survive their journey, and flare up to become the brightest comets in his...

With global production of plastic exceeding 280 metric tons every year, a fair amount of the stuff is bound to make its way to the natural environment. However, until now researchers haven't known whether ingested plasti...

A modeling study by U.S. Forest Service researchers shows that reforesting the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley can significantly reduce runoff from agricultural lands and the amount of sediment entering the area's rive...

Pay a visit to the Chang'e 3 lunar landing site.

It does not seem out of place today, but the sight 30 years ago of a pressurized module mounted in the space shuttle's payload bay was described in 1983 as an 'odd-appearing assemblage.' That sight was Spacelab, a $1 bil...

On December 1 at 17:30 UTC, Chang'e 3 launched atop a Long March 3B rocket on a direct lunar transfer trajectory. It is scheduled to enter orbit December 6 and land December 14. The rocket was equipped with cameras that ...

The sunlit edge of Titan's south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated hazy atmosphere....

A team of astrophysicists at the German Aerospace Center, together with German and other European colleagues, has discovered the most extensive planetary system to date....

Over the weekend, the Chinese government did something that has not been attempted in nearly 40 years: Launch a spacecraft for a soft landing to the Moon. On Dec. 1, 2013, the Chang'e 3 lander and rover launched successf...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The institute will help prepare humans to explore the moon, asteroids and the moons of Mars.

After sending its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket to the hangar for engine inspections and a gas-generator swap, SpaceX will make its third attempt to launch SES-8 on Dec. 3.