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DigitalGlobe announced the satellite's successful deployment in orbit.

A team of astronomers from Leiden University, The Netherlands, measured the chemical fingerprint of the smallest aromatic molecule. According to astrochemical models this molecule should be highly abundant in the univers...

While alien life can be seen nightly on television and in the movies, it has never been seen in space. Not so much as a microbe, dead or alive, let alone a wrinkle-faced Klingon.

(Phys.org) --NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan. This renewed weather activity, considered overdue by researchers, could finall...

Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca captured the colorful conjuction of the moon, Mars and Spica in this image.See how astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca captured the photo here.

Space.com readers sent in their photos of the August 2014 Perseid meteor shower.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's ISS-RapidScat mission will continue a long legacy of monitoring ocean winds from space.

A satellite designed to produce high-resolution images of Earth from space has been successfully launched from a military base on California's Central Coast.

This image was taken by astrophotographer Amit Kamble from a dark sky site near Foxton, New Zealand on July 27. See how he did it here.

Those who enjoy the spectacle of the Perseids, Geminids or other annual meteor showers likely aren't thinking about where these shooting stars originated or whether they might pose a danger. Scientists, however, think ab...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new photo from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an oblong boulder about 20 feet (6 meters) tall standing upright on Mars after tumbling downhill, leaving a tr...

DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Aug. 13, 2014.

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have made a novel discovery that may potentially protect the world from future collisions with asteroids.

Cassini looked on last month as methane clouds floated above Ligeia Mare, a big hydrocarbon sea near Titan's north pole. Few clouds had been seen on Titan since 2010, so researchers are trying to gauge the significance o...

ViaSat's 630,000 subscribers compares with 935,000 on the competing HughesNet service offered by Hughes Network Systems as of June 30.

ViaSat's 630,000 subscribers compares with 935,000 on the competing HughesNet service offered by Hughes Network Systems as of June 30.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular cluster IC 4499. Globular clusters are big balls of old stars that orbit around their host galaxy. It has long been be...

A new satellite launched by DigitalGlobe has many new features and enhancements. This should give citizens a better view of the planet and make Google map users happy.

The center section of the "pathfinder" (test) backplane of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at the Goddard Space Flight Center in July 2014, to be part of a simulation of putting together vital parts of the tele...

The NASA All-Sky Fireball Network captured 2 meteors from the annual shower burning up in the atmosphere nearly simultaneously. It occurred in the early morning hours of August 13th, 2014.

An asteroid on NASA's list of potential impact threats to the Earth is actually a pile of loosely connected rubble held together by forces weaker than the weight of a penny, scientists say.

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have made a novel discovery that may potentially protect the world from future collisions with asteroids.