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American Astronomical Society: The Future of TimeA Workshop at the 223rd AAS MeetingSunday, 5 January 2014, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmNational Harbor 6, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Time is a very broad subject. ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus, covered in snow and ice, resembles a perfectly packed snowball in this image from NASA's Cassini mission....

This stunning space wallpaper is a colorized composite image from NASA's Dawn mission showing the crater Antonia, which lies in the enormous Rheasilvia basin in the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta.

NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-L will be the focus of a media opportunity at 10 a.m. EST Friday, Jan. 3, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla.

Not so much a popularity contest as an altitude contest. 10: Himalayan Jumping Spider The fuzzy and springy Euophrys omnisuperstes lives on the world's highest mountains. It's been found 6,700 meters (a little over four ...

Night sky photographer LeRoy Zimmerman captured these amazing images of aurora borealis over Alaska. See how he captured the views near Fairbanks in early December.

Two Russian Cosmonauts installed a pair of high-fidelity cameras outside the International Space Station but had to remove them after telemetry problems, resulting in a new record for the longest Russian space walk at 8 ...

The money covers the fourth vehicle in the AEHF constellation.

Beyonce's 'XO' features an audio sampling from the Challenger disaster, and it's not sitting well with critics.

Amateur astronomer David Ellison captured this beautiful image of the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas from his backyard in Chatanooga, Tenn. See how he did it here.

Some astronomers are control freaks. It's not enough to buy a telescope, they want to craft every part of the experience with their own hands. If you're ready, and willing to get your hands dirty (and covered in glass du...

NASA Breaking News: NASA astronauts will help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space and from Earth to the crowd gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve.

What would you look at if you could pull down high definition images and video (!!) from space? A few years ago that question was pretty far out, but now anyone willing to shell out some bucks can... --

If there's one thing we love, it's a good meteor shower from an obscure and defunct constellation. Never heard of the Quadrantids? It may well be because this brief but intense annual meteor shower occurs in the early da...

Planetary transits of the Sun by Mercury and Venus don't come along very often, and when they do we make a big deal of it because, well, it's really cool!

A pair of Earth-observing cameras owned by UrtheCast failed to perform as expected after their installation outside the iISS.

NASA astronauts will help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space and from Earth to the crowd gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Is there any hope of detecting what’s left of Comet ISON after the sun proved too much for its delicate constitution? German amateur astronomer Uwe Pilz suggest there remains a possibility that a photographic search mi...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has capped 2013 with a spectacular new collection of Saturn photos showcasing the planet's beauty, as well with its trademark rings and strange moons. Saturn's clouds, rings, and moons Titan, En...

The space rock was discovered on Dec. 23rd, 2013 and will be makes its closest approach to Earth (3.6 lunar distance) on Jan. 3rd, 2014. Its is estimated to be 102 meters or 400 feet-wide.

This launch vehicle is designed to carry a payload equal to the size and weight of those on a space shuttles.

Bigelow — that company that has two inflatable structures in orbit and that plans to add an inflatable room to the International Space Station — is looking for help. The company is asking people to come to its Las Ve...