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The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxie...

Hey, what do Bruce Campbell and I have in common? Besides that we're both unspeakably groovy? We'll both be at Phoenix Comic Con on June 5-8! Mind you, Mr. Campbell is one of the big-name guests, while I'll most likely j...

From a blazing supernova remnant to a smokin' hot supermodel, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Feb. 22, 2014.

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@Astro_Wakata: The moon setting on the blue earth atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/ZyTVD5ockm...

Blistering cold air from the Arctic plunged southward this winter, breaking U.S. temperature records....

On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space...

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming...