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Jupiter's innermost moon, Io -- with over 400 active volcanoes, extensive lava flows and floodplains of liquid rock -- is by far the most geologically active body in the Solar System. But last August, Io truly came alive...

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has captured the closest images yet of its target comet 67P/C-G.

What a stunning view of this dark region of space! This image, by astrophotographer Callum Hayton shows LDN 673, a molecular cloud complex that lies in the constellation Aquila. This region is massive — around 67 trill...

See stunning photos of the night sky and sun as seen by stargazers around the world in this Space.com photo gallery for August 2014 made up of images sent in by Space.com readers.

In the future, astronomers could detect hints of alien life by scanning the atmospheres of distant worlds, researchers say. Such work would require the development and launch of big, sophisticated new space telescopes.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: With the help of a JPL researcher, high school intern Alice Zhai has turned her science fair project into the first look at the economic impacts of hurricane size.

You could be forgiven for thinking this summer that the "supermoon" is now a monthly occurrence. But this coming weekend's Full Moon is indeed (we swear) the closest to Earth for 2014. What's going on here? Well, as we w...

Today: Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS)-II Operations: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Gerst conducted flame tests for the BASS-II investigation which examines the burning and extinction characteristics of a wide variety ...

Gemini Observatory : Figure 1. Image of Io taken in the near-infrared with adaptive optics at the Gemini North telescope on August 29. In addition to the extremely bright eruption on the upper right limb of the satellite...

Intelsat's price cuts to help selected customers has helped its Africa business stabilize.

Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period last August, leading astronomers to speculate that these presumed rare "outbursts"....

I love anything that attempts to provide a sense of scale about the Solar System (see here and here for even more examples) and this one brings us down past the Sun, planets, and moons all the way to asteroid size — sp...

This ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will overtake comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Rosetta, then corkscrew downard from around 100 km to 25-30 km where mapping will determine the target for the mission's Philae lander.animation...

Knowing my love of optical phenomena in the sky, photographer (and frequent BA blog appearer) Göran Strand sent me a really interesting pair of pictures he took recently of a rainbow over Östersund, Sweden.* He shot th...

Last year, the Planck Telescope revealed the most detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. But this map contains features that challenge the standard model of cosmology,...

"We're coming to our first taste of a geological unit that's part of the base of the mountain rather than the floor of the crater," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technolo...

"Our part of the Milky Way is ringing like a bell," said Brian Yanny, of the Department of Energy's Fermilab. "But we have not been able to identify the celestial object that passed through the Milky Way. It could have.....

Last year, the Planck Telescope revealed the most detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. But this map contains features that challenge the standard model of cosmology,...

Scientists yesterday highlighted an impressive list of achievements in researching the outer heliosphere at the 40th International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly in Moscow.

ILS has been suffering from three unrelated issues that have put pressure on its business.

A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft floats inside the well deck of the U.S.S. Anchorage on Aug. 2, 2014, during recovery tests off the coast of California....

Last year, the Planck Telescope revealed the most detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. But this map contains features that challenge the standard model of cosmology,...