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The mystery of a strange rock on Mars that suddenly appeared in front of NASA's Opportunity rover has warped into the final frontier. Even 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner wants to know what's going on.

While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by comet and meteor impacts could have given a boost to the start of life. ...

An amazing new photo of Saturn's north pole puts the planet's odd hexagon-shaped jet stream and dazzling rings on display.

A CubeSat deployer brought to the International Space Station on the Cyngus capsule in January has been installed in in the Japanese Experiment Module Airlock and will start deploying the tiny satellites Februay 6th.

Astronauts in space are much too far removed to make an office call to a specialist for cases of depression and other psychosocial issues. In space, such maladies can pose a substantial threat to crew safety and mission ...

John Glenn's first impression on seeing the Navy ship that will sail under his name was that it looked 'like somebody forgot to finish it.' The Navy christened the strange-looking Mobile Landing Platform as the USNS John...

Out here in the Milky Way's suburbs, stellar collisions are unheard of. But there are places in the galaxy where stars whiz past each other, and collisions can happen. When stars collide, it's a catastrophic event, and t...

‏@Astro_Wakata: Feb 1 Crescent moon rising from the Earth atmosphere...

Are you a chronic early riser? Observational astronomy often means late nights and early mornings as daylight lengths get longer for northern hemisphere residents in February through March. But this year offers another d...

Shimizu Corporation is developing plans to install a belt of solar cells around the equator of the Moon to beam energy via safe microwaves and lasers to Earth. A 2035 construction start date would mark 50 years the compa...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The newest video in the "Behind the Webb" series, called "100 Points of Light" takes viewers behind the scenes to understand what the Near Infrared Spectrograph or NIRSpec will do when...

(Phys.org) --Messier 82 (M82), the galaxy in which the nearest supernova in decades recently exploded, also is the closest galaxy that is undergoing a rapid burst of star formation, known as a starburst. About 12 million...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland congratulated the James Webb Space Telescope team Monday for the delivery of all flight instruments and primary mirrors to NASA's Goddard Space F...

Today’s blog post is written by Radio Galaxy Zoo science team member Anna Kapinska, who works on radio jets and studies how they affect the galaxies which host them at various stages of the Universe's evolution. This i...

"We see evidence that liquid water flowed over the surface early in history in a way that doesn't happen today," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's principle investigator. "However, it's an open question as to whether there wer...

Portraits of a planet.

As if NASA didn't have enough to worry about, the U.S. space agency is now faced with the scandal of the century -- they're being sued for not investigating a bona fide life form on Mars! And it all is due to a mystery r...

ESA Top News: The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter module consisting of the spacecraft structure, thermal control and propulsion systems was handed over by OHB System to Thales Alenia Space France at a ceremony held in Bremen, ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

The biggest growth industry in astronomy right now is finding exoplanets; alien worlds orbiting alien stars. This was essentially impossible even 25 years ago, but now better technology and techniques mean a new one is a...

Everyone knows that space is cold. In the vast gulf between stars and galaxies, the temperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3 degrees K, or 454 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

Seeking fitness inspiration? NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio, along with four fitness professionals and athletes, will share workout tips during a special Google+ Hangout from space at 12:15 p.m. EST Th...