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Work presented today at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California shows that the timing of the giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a planet-sized body occurred around 40 million years after ...

"The evolution of complex life on other worlds is rare in frequency but large in absolute number," according to new research from a team led by Louis Irwin--from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas...

(Phys.org) --NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury passing in front of the sun, visible as a faint darkening that moves across the face of the sun.

Satellite imagery of Earth is incredible. It affords us flatlanders a view of phenomena that perhaps we never even knew existed. For example, are you aware of von Kármán vortices? No? Regular readers might be; I've wri...

(Phys.org) --Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring. Scientists believe that Prometheus and its partner-moon Pandora are responsible for much of the structure in the F ring.

Where galaxies live has an enormous effect on how they form stars, a puzzle that a new Canadian study is helping to solve. "To understand how galaxies evolve, we need to study the link between stars and gas, and the effe...

A Space.com reader sent in an intriguing view of the Milky Way over Evans Bay in Wellington, New Zealand.

The first season of 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' hits stores today (June 10), and the newly released set of episodes is packed full of cosmic special features and other surprises.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft are beginning observations and sending science data back to Earth.

After a 10-year journey that began in March 2004, the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet orbiter has its sights set on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The orbiter's payload, including the Alice ultraviolet (UV) spect...

NASA Breaking News: With just six months until its first trip to space, NASA's Orion spacecraft continues taking shape at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Program executive Daniel Lockney explains how technologies used to for exploration have been transferred for use in everyday life here on Earth.

In an evaluation to determine funding, NASA ranked its Swift telescopes at the top of a list of nine astronomical space telescopes, not including Hubble or Chandra.

Google and Skybox Imaging announced that Google is purchasing SkyBox for $500 million in cash, subject to adjustments.

Alan Stern, the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, has challenged astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to just such a debate, NBCNews reported last week.

David Chenette, a veteran solar scientist who came to NASA from industry Sept. 30, will leave his position June 20.

A quarter-scale version of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) space plane was tested with an unpowered flight off the coast of Singapore in early May 2014. It was dropped from nearly 10,000 feet.

H.R. 4412 would allow contractors building NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System rocket to spend money currently reserved to cover the potential cost of canceling those programs.

NASA is offering $1.5 million in prize money this week to inventors who build a robot that can navigate a mock-alien landscape and scoop up geologic samples without any help from human controllers.

Wondering why a new research team says the Earth and the Moon is 60 million years older than previously believed? Well, it’s a gas. It has to do with the proportion of different gas types that have stuck around since t...

NASA Breaking News: NASA technology makes deep space travel happen, but it also improves long distance travel here on Earth.

New York-based BoldlyGo Institute announced plans to develop Mars sample-return mission and a space telescope missions using private funding.