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This new image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery o...

One of the benefits of being an astrophysicist is your weekly email from someone who claims to have "proven Einstein wrong". These either contain no mathematical equations and use phrases such as "it is obvious that..", ...

The first full moon of 2014 rises this week, but despite being the first of the year, it has the surprising name 'Old Moon' for some cultures. It's not the only nickname for the event. Here's a look at the weird full moo...

Arthur C. Clarke was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. He defined the genre, and revolutionized our ideas about what it will take to become a true space faring civilization. In the first of our two...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

On Dec. 14, 2013, China successfully put a lander and rover on the Moon. I was hoping that at some point NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter would be able to spot it, and it actually happened faster than I expected: [Pho...

ESA Top News: This year sees the fifth and last of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles leave for the International Space Station. ATV Georges Lemaître will be launched this summer from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, fully ...

From cleanroom to liftoff, watch an incredible time-lapse movie of Gaia's final preparations on Earth before shooting for the stars

Walk across the fall line, knees bent, back straight. Lean into your back foot. Remember not to go tumbling off the hill while inside the spacesuit.

This year sees the fifth and last of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles leave for the International Space Station. ATV Georges Lemaître will be launched this summer from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, fully loaded with su...

The celebrated astrophysicist and science educator wants to reach a new generation with his update of the seminal 1980 miniseries, which was hosted by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan.

NASA Breaking News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Monday visited the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to see the progress being made on the Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket ever bu...

If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean, researchers say.

The European built probe is the most complex mission to a comet. Since its launch in March 2004, it has flown by Earth 3 times, snapped images of asteroids and more. It has been hibernating since 2011 and will be awoken ...

The company the state was trying to lure for a controversial spaceport project -- SpaceX of California -- may go to Texas instead.

ESA Science & Technology : The planet Venus is blanketed by high-level clouds. At visible wavelengths, individual cloud features are difficult to see, but observations made by instruments on ESA&aposs Venus Express orbit...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a star engulfed in a hazy nebula, destined to explode into a supernova one day.

New limbs of the robotic ISS crew member, Robonaut 2 (R2), are demonstrated to the 'Waltz of the Blue Danube' music. Legs will increase the mobility of the robot for work in and out of the Space Station.

MDA has awarded Raytheon a $156 million sole-source contract to buy the materials it needs to build eight SM-3 Block 1B interceptors.

Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus space capsule arrived at the international space station with 1,260 kilograms of cargo Jan. 12.

In the early pre-dawn hours on December 19, 2013, with a rumble and a roar, a Soyuz rocket blazed through the clouds above the jungle-lined coast of French Guiana, ferrying ESA’s long-awaited Gaia spacecraft into orbit...

Starting this spring, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is reviving the late Carl Sagan's popular PBS television series as Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. The new series will be broadcast on Fox and the National Geog...