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Small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way may have arrived via dark matter superhighways stretching across the universe --

The children's book was read out loud by astronaut Alvin Drew during the STS-133 mission in 2011.

A coalition of grassroots pro-space advocates descended on Washington, D.C. this week, and held over 100 meetings with representatives and staff throughout Congress to argue for increased investment in NASA.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): Using Fabry-Perot optical interferometers, including GHaFaS on the William Herschel Telescope, and observing a sample of over a hundred nearby galaxies, astronomers have discovered...

From a jaw-dropping stargazing adventure to Indonesia's Mount Bromo, to intense auroras grooving over several Swedish Lapland locations, don't miss these spectacular night sky images by stargazers and Space.com readers.

Evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite, reviving debate in the scientific community over life on Mars, has been disdcovered by a team of scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and th...

A flyby of Mars in 2021 could be a good precursor to landing astronauts on Mars sometime in the not-too-distant future, but much work needs to be accomplished before that goal can be achieved, experts told Congress Thurs...

On February 27, 2014, the Wall Street Journal and Southeast Asia Realtime reported that: "the plantation-rich province of Riau on Indonesia's Sumatra Island has declared a state of emergency as fires set for land clearin...

In space, things don't always behave the way we expect them to. In the case of cancer, researchers have found that this is a good thing: some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in the microgravity environment of spac...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory launched from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on February 27, Eastern Standard Time....

Sometimes, you just need a little flash of inspiration to make your day go a bit better. Even if that flash is caused by a chunk of space rock the size of a grape slamming into Earth's atmosphere at 50,000 mph and conver...

A team of Australian and American astronomers have been studying nearby galaxy M83 and have found a new superpowered small black hole, named MQ1, the first object of its kind to be studied in this much detail.

The boom in finding Pluto's peers nears its end --

Yes, the moon rotates on its axis. The moon's rate of rotation nearly matches its orbital period, which keep the same side facing Earth.

Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.

A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on February 28....

NASA’s NEOWISE mission — formerly known as just WISE — has identified the first comet of its new near-Earth object hunting career... and, according to mission scientists, it’s a “weirdo.” (...)Read the rest o...

From the ancient Egyptian astronomer Hypatia to modern-day astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, physicists throughout history are getting the artist's treatment in a new set of illustrations honoring the thinkers' contributio...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft has spotted its first new comet since coming out of hibernation late last year.

A black hole with extremely powerful jets has been found in the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83) by a team of Australian and American researchers, as we report in the journal Science today.