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The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), carried by the Yutu rover of the Chang'e-3 satellite got its first X-ray fluorescence spectrum of lunar regolith around the landing site on December 25, 2013....

Today, New Year's Day 2014, NASA's Curiosity mega rover celebrates a huge mission milestone - her 500th Martian Day on the Red Planet since the death defying touchdown of August 2012.

Golden Spike, acompany developing commercial missions to the moon for launch in 2020, has partnered with Honeybee Robotics to design lunar rovers to accompany the manned expeditions.

In December, we challenged our readers to try and see Venus during the daytime. Sharin Ahmad from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia started off the new year by nailing this awesome picture of a crescent Venus at just after noon loc...

See amazing amateur astronomy photos and night sky views sent in to SPACE.com by readers in January 2014 in our month-long running gallery.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Laboratory captured this explosive M9-class solar flare on January first, ringing in the New Year with a flare that was almost but not quite X-class.

A baby Moon and aging Venus crescents are positioned close in the sky today, and lots of people are taking beautiful photos.

Climbing robots that mimic the stickiness of gecko lizard feet could work in space as well as on Earth, ESA has shown, raising the prospect of hull-crawling automatons tending future spacecraft....

The service hopes follow-on technology will be ready for a flight demonstration in 2016.

On Tuesday March 13, NASA's Curiosity science team announced that the Martian rover had found the first confirmed site other than Earth where conditions were right to have once hosted ancient life, if it ever evolved on ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The first BARREL balloon of the 2013-2014 season was launched on Dec. 27, 2013. BARREL's job is to help unravel the mysterious radiation belts, two gigantic donuts of particles that su...

This was very likely the last trip around the Sun for the Earth-crossing asteroid 2014 AA, according to calculations by several teams of astronomers and published online earlier today on the IAU’s Minor Planet Center. ...

Step outside this evening about 30 minutes after sunset and look low toward the southwest horizon. You'll be able to see the final evening pairing of the two brightest objects in the night sky for nearly a year.

For just the second time in history, an asteroid was discovered before it impacted the Earth. Don't panic: It was very small, probably just a few meters across, and burned up harmlessly in our atmosphere. But after event...

The Chandra image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4261 reveals dozens of black holes and neutron stars strung out across tens of thousands of light years like beads on a necklace. The spectacular structure, which is not app...

Company officials also described how it will use the reorganization inside the Airbus Group to find synergies between the construction of Earth observation and telecommunications satellites, and between electronics compo...

As 2014 opens, most of the half dozen comets traversing the morning and evening sky are faint and require detailed charts and a good-sized telescope to see and appreciate. Except for Comet Lovejoy. This gift to beginner ...

Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur)...

Students in Newport News and Williamsburg, Va., will begin 2014 by talking with astronauts in orbit aboard the International Space Station.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the Jan. 7 launch of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).

A person's first telescope can tilt one's eyes to the sky in a somewhat permanent fashion, if anecdotal evidence has any standing. Many amateur astronomers have said their interest in the sky can be traced to a Christmas...

The acquisition gives Eutelsat a major beachhead in the robust Latin American market alongside rivals Intelsat, SES, Telesat and others.