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Comet Lovejoy soars in these stunning images recently sent to SPACE.com by an avid astrophotographer.

Chinese state media say China has successfully landed a space probe on the moon, in the first lunar "soft landing" in nearly four decades....

A series of spacewalks might be necessary to fix a breakdown in the equipment cooling system aboard the International Space Station, NASA said Friday.

At 1.11pm UTC today (8.11 am EST) the Chang’e-3 mission made a successful soft landing in an area toward the edge of the Sinus Iridum and Mare Imbrium – shown in this image by the red... --

Here it is! Animated gifs, composed of screen grabs from Chinese state television, of the Yutu rover rolling on to the lunar surface. This was a replay, but it was no less thrilling for that; the actual rollout happened ...

China became the first country to make a 'soft landing' of a spacecraft in almost 40 years. The last country to do so was the Soviet Union in 1976.

The new movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway and Wes Bentley was released on Dec. 14th, 2013.

NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. Saturday moved the targeted launch date of the Orbital-1 resupply mission to the International Space Station....

China on Saturday successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said, the next stage in an ambitious space program that aims to eventually put a ...

There are hundreds of comets flying around the Solar System, each of them a potential target for ESA's comet-chasing Rosetta mission....

Charles Vest led one of the international space station redesigns.

China scored a stunning, history making success with the successful touchdown of the ambitious Chang'e-3 probe with the 'Yutu' rover on the surface of the Moon today, Dec. 14, on the country's first ever attempt to condu...

The scientists at the Antarctica South Pole Telescope have observed twisting patterns in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background--light that last interacted with matter very early in the history of the univer...

China's Chang'e 3 spacecraft landed on the moon on Dec. 14, marking a historic lunar arrival for China's space agency. The Chang'e 3 lander is carrying China's Yutu moon rover. See how they will explore the lunar surface...

One of the key indicators and consequences of global warming is ice loss at the Earth's poles. As the planet warms, on average and over time, every summer more ice melts. It refreezes in the winter, but again as temperat...

Iran said on Saturday that it had safely returned a monkey to Earth after blasting it into space in the second such launch this year in its controversial ballistic programme.

China will attempt to land a probe carrying the country's first lunar rover on the moon Saturday in a major breakthrough for its ambitious space programme.

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft will launch Thursday to create a 3D map of the Milky Way, precisely measuring the distance to about a billion of the galaxy's stars. Gaia, scheduled for launch Thursday, will s...

Whether we actually live in a hologram is being hotly debated, but it is now becoming clear that looking at phenomena through a holographic lens could be key to solving some of the most perplexing problems in physics. La...

Central in the southern sky is the constellation Orion the Hunter. Along with the Big Dipper, this is probably the most easily recognized constellation, and the starting place for a stargazing adventure.

All systems appear to be "GO" for the world's first attempt to soft land a space probe on the Moon in nearly four decades. China's maiden moon landing probe – Chang'e-3 – is slated to attempt the history making landi...

The meteor shower peaks on December 13 and 14, 2013 and NASA is all over it. The shower will be fairly active through December 16th, though the moonlight will cause some interference.