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Rosetta team members have named the 82-foot-tall boulder on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko "Cheops," after the largest pyramid in Egypt's famous Giza complex.

NASA inaugurated a new era of research for the International Space Station (ISS) as an Earth observation platform following the successful installation and activation of the ISS-RapidScat science instrument on the outpos...

A recently discovered planet-like star may offer insight into which of the thousands of planets so far discovered in the universe could support life.

On October 31st 2005, trick-or-treaters across the central U.S. eastern seaboard were treated to a brilliant fireball, a celestial spectacle that frequently graces October skies.(...)Read the rest of Get Ready for the Fi...

Astronomy is notorious for raising more questions than it answers. Take the observation that the vast majority of matter is invisible. Although astronomers have gathered overwhelming evidence that dark matter makes up ro...

NASA needs your help to name a new robot, and you could win some money doing it.

The Moon’s a very dusty museum where the exhibits haven’t changed much over the last 4 billion years. Or so we thought. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the Moon's vo...

File this under "Too Ironic to Describe Without Making Your Head Asplode": Briefly, Sally Morgan is a self-proclaimed "psychic" who says she can to talk to the dead, and so on. However, reports on her readings make me ex...

Frigid lakes bombarded by UV radiation and boiling, acidic springs are some of the otherworldly Earth environments where scientists plan to hunt for clues to life on Mars.

Shana Dale is starting a similar position at the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office in November.

As millions of people observed the total lunar eclipse on October 8, MESSENGER was also watching....

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are going to be getting an addition in the near future, and in the form of an inflatable room no less. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is the first privatel...

This artist's concept depicts the early Martian environment (left) - believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere - versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (right)....

Many celestial objects are beautiful - swirling spiral galaxies or glittering clusters of stars are notable examples....

NASA has chosen proposals from 10 universities to study CubeSat concepts that could enhance a Europa mission concept currently under study by NASA....

Astronomers Chih-Hao Li and David Phillips of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics want to rediscover Venus--that familiar, nearby planet stargazers can see with the naked eye much of the year.

Yes, it's another time-lapse of the October 8 lunar eclipse that was observed by skywatchers across half the Earth... except that these images weren't captured from Earth at all; this was the view from Mercury!

Careful study of desert-dwelling snake mobility sheds light on the physics of crossing sandy surfaces --

A new ultrastable adhesive identified through ESA research could be a key to assembling rock-solid structures for space, including large telescopes, instruments and antennas to peer deeper into the cosmos or sharpen view...

Many celestial objects are beautiful - swirling spiral galaxies or glittering clusters of stars are notable examples. But some of the most striking scenes are created during the death throes of intermediate-mass stars, w...

Volcanoes on Mercury may have been more explosive than previously anticipated, and they may have erupted more recently, as well.

Today: Zebrafish Muscle: Gerst performed the water quality measurement of aquarium water. This experiment asks if the atrophy of muscles under the condition of microgravity also occurs in zebrafish and why their atrophy ...