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Today: NanoRacks CubeSat Deployers: Overnight, ground teams attempted deployment of three undeployed launchers (#4, 7, 8) without success. Additional deploy attempts are being planned this evening....

An international team of scientists led by a Clemson University astrophysicist has discovered new evidence that planets are forming around a star about 335 light years from Earth.

(Phys.org) --A small asteroid, designated 2014 RC, will safely pass very close to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. At the time of closest approach, based on current calculations to be about 2:18 p.m. EDT (11:18 a.m. PDT /...

The northern lights are a stunning sight for people on Earth, but even astronauts can see the incredible light shows from outer space.

Before iPhones and laptops there were human computers, some of whom worked at the Harvard College Observatory. Women like Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Williamina Fleming, and Annie Jump Cannon made some of the most important ...

A YouTube search for "astronauts falling over" will yield dozens of results. New experiments might help explain why the Apollo astronauts occasionally struggled to stay upright.

Shining almost directly overhead as darkness falls these days is the brilliant star Vega, in the constellation of Lyra, the Harp. Vega is the fifth-brightest star in the night sky and the third-brightest visible from mid...

NASA Breaking News: NASA opens a new era this month in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station. A media briefing on this...

NASA's Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt is having a few clumsy moments, struggling with his sample collection bag and falling down on the moon.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks host some of the nation's biggest trees and tallest mountains. But the side-by-side parks in a remote corner of California also preserve some of the most dramatic views of the nigh...

An asteroid will make a close brush with Earth on Sunday, passing by the planet well inside the orbit of the moon.

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

Look! Fast! Sprite lightning occurs only at high altitudes above thunderstorms, only last for a thousandth of a second and emit light in the red portion of the visible spectrum, so they are really difficult to see. But o...

"Dark matter is some unknown matter, most likely a new elementary particle or particles beyond the Standard Model," said Mikhail Medvedev, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas. "It has never bee...

The U.S. Air Force plans to release a formal solicitation in December for a contract potentially worth $1 billion to consolidate work on the service's main satellite control network, with the award to follow at the end o...

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked California's Napa Valley last month not only injured dozens of people and caused millions of dollars in damage, but it also warped the surface of Earth.

The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public. This new resource for climate studies, weather forecasting, and other ...

NASA opens a new era this month in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station. A media briefing on this addition to NASA's ...

A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public....

NASA Breaking News: The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public. This new resource for climate studies, weather for...

Last week, I hosted the first episode of a podcast series to discuss the new season of Doctor Who. Episode 2 is now live, and I'm joined by my guest Mac Rogers to investigate what it's like to go "Into the Dalek." We tal...