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See stunning photos of Earth's dancing northern lights with these amazing aurora photos from Earth and space in 2014. Astronauts on the International Space Station captured the aurora views from orbit.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland participated in a news conference Feb. 3 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to discuss the status of the agency's flagship ...

NASA studies of microgravity effects on vision have found that tissue at the back of the eyes swells and distorts in shape. This causes both nearsightedness and farsightedness for astronauts.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is set to defend evolution tonight (Feb. 4) in a debate with the founder of Kentucky's Creation Museum, Ken Ham.

The European Space Agency announced yesterday a significant milestone in the development of the next Mars mission: the core module of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has been delivered.

While working at the Mars Desert Research Station in rural Utah for three weeks in January, Crew 133 needed to observe several rules to make the simulation as realistic as possible.

For two weeks this January, Crew 133 was a caretaker of a habitat on "Mars." The Mars Desert Research Station is a 1,200-square-foot facility in the middle of the Utah desert and is the property of the Mars Society.

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

In which I ask the Internet to tell me about people who deserve to have an asteroid named for them because of their work to promote racial equality, human rights, and social justice.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected.

This stunning space wallpaper shows a rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The observatory watches the sun in many different wavelengths of light, which are each colorized in a differen...

We’re lucky to live on a planet where it’s predictably warmer in the summer and colder in the winter in many regions, at least within a certain range. On Kepler-413b, it’s a world where you’d have to check the fo...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: From engaging in combat engineering missions in the Middle East, to operating and maintaining Goddard's large campus, Facilities Operations Specialist Eric M. Holmes--Mr. Snow Desk--ge...

Brigitte Zypries will join her French and Italian counterparts in determining whether Europe invests $6.8 billion in new launch vehicles.

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats Imagine living on a planet with seasons so unpredictable you would hardly know what to wear: Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat! That's the situatio...

What a crazy sunspot cycle. Weeks go by with only a few tiny spots freckling the sun, then all at once a monster group big enough to swallow 10 Earths rounds the eastern limb and we’re back in business. I’m happy to ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a huge fan of Mars exploration and Mars colonies, and in a new interview he says a launch system to send people to the Red Planet could be available in 10 to 12 years. Requirements: it has to be b...

This is the second half of a description of radio galaxies from Anna Kapinska, Radio Galaxy Zoo science team member. Last time we discussed the early and mid stages of radio galaxy life that take up the majority of the r...

Well, vegetables to be precise. So says a researcher with Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems, which is partnered with Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in an experimental greenhouse named Lada aboa...

NASA's newest moon probe now has a little extra time to investigate lunar mysteries from orbit around Earth's natural satellite.

Switzerland will pay 80 million euros to make up for its lack of involvement in the program between 2008 and 2013 and 27 million euros annually starting this year.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to spot multiple objects at the same time with its NIRspec instrument, the first for a satellite spectrometer.