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Over the weekend, China landed a rover on the Moon. The mission is called Chang'e 3, and the rover is called Yutu, which means "Jade Rabbit". It launched on Dec. 1, and orbited the Moon for about a week. On Dec. 14, the ...

This past June, an international team of researchers has mapped the motions of structures of the nearby universe in greater detail than ever before. The maps are presented as a video, which provides a dynamic three-dimen...

NASA engineers are trying to fix a problem with the International Space Station's cooling system in time for a private robotic spaceship to launch on a cargo mission to the orbiting lab on Thursday (Dec. 19).

One of the best meteor showers of the year wowed skywatchers during its peak last weekend, and some stargazers took the opportunity to snap incredible photos of the cosmic display.

See photos from Orbital Sciences of the first Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station in December 2013. The Dec. 19 launch will visible from parts of the U.S. East Coast.

While Expedition 38 astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins get their spacesuits and the Quest airlock ready in case they need to do a spacewalk to fix a cooling problem on board the station, NASA engineers have ...

When you consider the hazards of spaceflight, it's hard to get worked up about dust bunnies. And yet, atmospheric dust is going to be one of the biggest problems astronauts will face when they reach the surface of other ...

It's time to reassess Europa exploration, past, present and future. The Destination Europa! session at AGU, inspired by the eponymous website and movement, didn't take exactly that message as its theme, but it's what I g...

If you’re an iPhone/iPad user, you might be interested to know that we’re giving away our Phases of the Moon app away for free today. That’s a $1.99 app, totally free. Click here, and install it. Based on the amazi...

W49A might be one of the best-kept secrets in our galaxy. This star-forming region shines 100 times brighter than the Orion nebula, but is so obscured by dust that very little visible or infrared light escapes.

Want to know the orbital paths where different spacecraft have traveled and where they are now? A great new infographic put together by Kevin Gill is a visualization of where 21 different unmanned spacecraft have travele...

A large coronal hole has rotated its way into an Earth-affecting position. It is a dark region where the Sun's magnetic field is more open and emits high-speed solar wind. Auroras may be on tap for Earth as a result .

Space Station Malfunction: Fixes Discussed By NASA | Video ISS Mission Operations Integration Manager Kenny Todd gives an update on the Space Station cooling issue that occurred aboard the International Space Station in ...

(Phys.org) --Astronomers, including Carnegie's Yuri Beletsky, took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, which suggest that the system harbors a third, planetary-mass object.The research is...

Spacewalk or space delivery? That's the question facing NASA as space station flight controllers try to revive a crippled cooling loop.

Astronomers, including Carnegie's Yuri Beletsky, took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, which suggest that the system harbors a third, planetary-mass object....

An international team led from the University of Leicester has published a major list of celestial X-ray sources in the Astrophysical Journal....

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed a $200 million contract modification to complete production of the fifth and sixth GPS 3 satellites.

The final Full Moon of 2013 occurs tonight, and along with it comes something special: the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon of 2013. Why doesn't the annual "mini-moon" receive the same fanfare and hype that t...

South Pole Telescope scientists have detected for the first time a subtle distortion in the oldest light in the universe, which may help reveal secrets about the earliest moments in the universe's formation....

NASA on Monday released its Fiscal Year 2013 Agency Financial Report detailing financial results, performance highlights, and its third consecutive unmodified, or clean, audit opinion.

If you've been paying any attention at all to the ongoing noise about global warming, then you've heard of the so-called "pause". This is the idea that the planet hasn't actually been warming for the past 15 years or so....