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China accomplished a major technological and scientific feat when the country's ambitious Chang'e-3 robotic spacecraft successfully soft landed on the Moon on Dec. 14 – on their very first attempt to conduct a landing ...

From amazing photos of the Gaia galaxy-mapping spacecraft's launch to an amazing Hubble image of a celestial "Christmas wreath," don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Dec. 21, 2013.

Massive stars - those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun - present an intriguing mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller? To find the...

Today’s post is from Enno Middelberg, RGZ science team member and astronomer at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and expert in interferometry. Enno has kindly agreed to share some details of this complex and highly usef...

NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins completed a 5 hour and 28 minute spacewalk Saturday to remove a faulty ammonia pump on the International Space Station. A second spacewalk to install a new unit now is sc...

I've got some books to recommend on astrobiology, planet Earth and its living creatures, impact cratering, and Mars rovers.

Lots of people ask questions about how the Curiosity mission, and future missions, will forge ahead to begin with looking for evidence of past life on Mars. There is nothing simple or straightforward about looking for li...

If you like daylight, I have some bad news and good news for you. Today is the winter solstice for the majority of folks who live on planet Earth (that is, in the northern hemisphere). The bad news: That means we have th...

Two NASA astronauts have begun their first of three quickly planned spacewalks to fix a problem with the International Space Station's vital cooling system.

A new study by the University of Utah revealed that the hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a ...

Two American astronauts are to step out Saturday on the first of three spacewalks to replace a broken cooling pump at the orbiting International Space Station.

Astronomers led by a Curtin University researcher have discovered a new population of exploding stars that "switch off" their radio transmissions before collapsing into a Black Hole.

On December 18, the Hubble Space Telescope slewed to Comet ISON’s expected position and found nothing down to the incredibly faint magnitude of 25. According to astronomer Hal Weaver, who planned the ISON search, that ...

On Saturday (Dec. 21), two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station to perform the first of potentially three urgent spacewalks to fix the vital cooling system on the orbiting outpost. You can...

Chinese state television broadcast a display of a Chang'e 3 lander image; the Yutu rover is awake; and LADEE reports a surprising non-detection of the Chang'e 3 landing.

Astronauts will perform two or three spacewalks to repair a problem with the International Space Station's cooling system, scheduled for Dec. 21, 23 and 25, 2013.

The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old.

When you learned to drive a car for the first time, remember how comforting it was to have an experienced driver beside you, able to anticipate the hazards and keep you on schedule? That’s surely how the Expedition 38 ...

Massive stars -- those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun -- present an intriguing mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller?