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At a ceremony at ESO's Vitacura offices in Santiago on 9 December 2013 the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, and senior representatives of the Chilean company ICAFAL Ingeniería y Construcción S.A., signed a contract ...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Thirteen California organizations, including NASA's Ames Research Center, were recognized with the 2013 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA), the s...

The bill's provisions apply to SLS, Orion, the space station, and Webb.

Come along for the ride as SPACE.com's @MiriKramer flies with fmr. Air Force pilot Russell Campell aboard a Marchetti SF260. 10 seconds of weightlessness into a 4G turn, Cuban 8 maneuver and more..she even gets to fly th...

On Friday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, I'm co-chairing an oral session titled "ED51: Era of Citizen Science: Intersection of Outreach, Scientific Research and Big Data." It's about the myri...

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer, or IRIS, has revealed fine detail in prominences within the sun's atmosphere (the red swirls shown in this space wallpaper), challenging the way scientists understand such ev...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Dressed in a clean room suit, NASA photographer Desiree Stover shines a light on the Space Environment Simulator's Integration Frame inside the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard...

Time-lapse of the observatories atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii created by Sean Goebel.

(Phys.org) --A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo mission has revealed clay-type minerals at the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa that appear to have been delivered by a spectacular collision with an asteroid o...

What’s the perfect holiday gift for any space fan? It’s the 2014 version of Steve Cariddi's wonderful Year in Space Wall Calendar, which is now available to order, and thanks to Steve, Universe Today has another 5 co...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: First discovered in 2007, "fast radio bursts" continue to defy explanation. These cosmic chirps last for only a thousandth of a second.

It's time for the December sky show.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Before IceBridge's Antarctic campaign, NASA P-3 research aircraft pilots and flight engineers got extra training that simulated landing and taking off from a runway made of ice.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo mission leads to the first detection of such minerals on the surface of this moon of Jupiter.

Citizens of Planet Earth are being invited to make a "video shout-out" to wake up a deep-space probe, Rosetta, that has been in hibernation since June 2011.

The bad news: Earth's oceans will evaporate away. The good news: It won't happen for another billion years or so.

Skybox Imaging released the first images taken by its satellite.

Good news for those searching for life elsewhere in the universe: a study released today suggests that planets orbiting surprisingly close to their stars can remain livable. This extension of the so-called habitable zone...

After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. Would the comet disintegrate in the fierce heat and gravity of ...

Earth's place in the solar system is just right. It's not too hot, like Venus, and it's not too cold, like Mars, and this "goldilocks zone" of habitability around other stars like the sun just might be bigger than though...

Researchers found that habitable alien planets could exist closer to their stars than was previously realized. See how habitable zones work in this SPACE.com infographic.

If NASA does not revise plans for its largest heliophysics missions, many of those programs are likely to begin years later and take far longer to reach the launch pad than currently scheduled.