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A snaking, extended filament of solar material currently lies on the front of the sun-- some 1 million miles across from end to end. Filaments are clouds of solar material suspended above the sun by powerful magnetic for...

An ultra-faint collection of 1,000 stars orbiting the Milky Way includes the most lightweight galaxies ever discovered, includind Segue 1 and Segue 2. The image above shows a standard prediction for the dark matter distr...

From a stunning image of the Red Planet from India's first spacecraft to a spectacular new photo showing a cluster of stars, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Oct. 4, 2014.

A NASA-backed study explores an innovative way to dramatically cut the cost of a human expedition to Mars -- put the crew in stasis.

Most of North America will witness a total eclipse of the moon on Wednesday (Oct. 8), but the morning sky will also hold a surprise for intrepid skywatchers interested in seeing another celestial body alongside the eclip...

A lunar eclipse will take place on Oct. 8, 2014. See how to see it with the sky maps in this Space.com gallery.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is a pretty good idea; I support raising awareness of a serious health issue. ... which is why I like to raise awareness of another serious health issue: anti-vaxxers. As it...

Looking up into the bright Mojave sky in 2004, I strained to keep my eyes on the tiny spaceship 50,000 feet up. "Three, two, one... release, release, release!" came the call over the loudspeakers. --

What, a gorgeously shot series of mesocyclones and other storms recorded forming in a time-lapse video? Yeah, you know I want to show you that. Those are amazing. They were shot by Nicolaus Wegner in 2013 in Wyoming. Mes...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun 24 hours a day, has observed this gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun....

On Oct. 4, 2004, the privately funded SpaceShipOne reached outer space for the second time in less than a week, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the team that built the craft and giving a nascent industry a hug...

The four images that make up this montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on Sept. 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft....