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Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.

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Night sky photographers Erwin Matys and Karoline Mrazek captured this amazing view of the young moon over El Hierro Island in the Canary Island. See how they did it here.

NASA--building on successful partnerships with private companies to resupply the International Space Station--is now looking to private entrepreneurs to help exploit resources on the moon.

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, the Discovery program is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. The creativity of the scientific community has given us a wide assortment of missions in the past a...

Remember comets Lovejoy and C/2012 X1 LINEAR? We dropped in on them in late January. On Feb. 6 the two cruised within 2 degrees of each other as they tracked through Ophiuchus before dawn. (...)Read the rest of Two Comet...