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Today: Extravehicular Activity (EVA) preparation: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Hopkins, FE-5 Mastracchio, and FE-6 Wakata performed a final tool gather and audit needed for tomorrow's planned EVA....

Six space travelers living in orbit definitely aren't home for Christmas today, but that doesn't mean they won't get into the holiday spirit on the International Space Station.

With our thanks, The Daily Galaxy Staff Image Credit: With Thanks to the ESA

The Milky Way moves across the night sky in this stunning composite image recently sent to SPACE.com.

The editors of Nature picked these feature stories as the best among the magazine's longer journalistic reports of the year --

The status of women in science, the nature of black holes and the role of cattle domestication in human prehistory were the topics of some of our favorite long-form pieces of 2013. [More] --

It's Christmas morning, so by now you've probably heard someone in your family telling you that the Yule log, Christmas tree, festive lights, and half a dozen other holiday traditions aren't actually Christian in origin,...

Koichi Wakata @Astro_Wakata - The Nile river as seen flying north bound - opposite direction from the previous night shot. pic.twitter.com/D44vkWk5si...

Koichi Wakata @Astro_Wakata - Flying over Himalaya. Can you tell which one is Mt. Everest? pic.twitter.com/WoUZUHQlGe...

Expedition 38 astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins ventured outside the space station on Dec. 24, for the second in a series of spacewalks to remove and replace a faulty coolant pump module....

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by our pal Ray Sanders at his Dear Astronomer blog.