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The Orion Astronomy 20x80 Binoculars are really a pair of refracting telescopes. They are our second favorite pair of large astronomy binoculars.

Mathematicians unlock numerical secrets behind the Rogers-Ramanujan identities.

Three new crew members representing the United States, Russia and Italy are at the International Space Station (ISS)....

NOAA satellites captured the early formation of the Thanksgiving nor'easter that could wreak havoc on holiday travelers.

NASA Breaking News: The fifth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Tuesday, Dec. 16, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape...

Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth...

Get a load of those streaks! Rosetta’s comet is picking up in activity as it moves ever closer to the Sun, sending out a steady stream of gas and dust captured in this image released today (Nov. 26). It’s also possib...

Oberwerk's Ultra 15x70 are a wonderful balance of size, weight and optical performance. Space.com's Editors chose them over all others, except one. Medium binoculars can be mounted or handheld if braced.

Celestron's Cometron 7 x 50 offers remarkable views and excellent value for a low price. Space.com's editors chose them over all others, except one. These small binoculars are easy to carry and superb for kids.

The genetic material DNA can survive a flight through space and re-entry into the earth's atmosphere--and still pass on genetic information. A team of scientists from UZH obtained these astonishing results during an expe...

Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions --

Space is one of the most demanding and unforgiving environments. Human exploration of space requires astronauts to maintain consistently high levels of cognitive performance to ensure mission safety and success, and prev...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most ene...

Researchers have measured the distance to the active galaxy NGC 4151, dubbed "The Eye of Sauron," with unprecedented precision. This calculation enabled them to determine that NGC 4151's central black hole is 40 percent ...

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons," which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been kn...

"In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs," said Avi Loeb, Director of Harvard University's Institute for Theory and Computation . If all the conditions are...

SNC is in the process of closing a California facility that has worked on hybrid propulsion systems.

The International Space Station's 3-D printer has manufactured the first 3-D printed object in space, paving the way to future long-term space expeditions.

Without an image of a black hole , no one has been able to confirm that black holes even exist, says Sheperd Doeleman, assistant director of the Haystack Observatory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Once a...

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to... Mars? Elmo, Cookie Monster and the other muppets from "Sesame Street" have joined forces with NASA to count down to the first launch of the Orion spacecraft.

Dreams of space are often tied to jet engines or solar sails or taking a ride on a rocketship. But it’s often quite efficient to do research from Earth, especially from the high reaches of the atmosphere where there ar...

The fifth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Tuesday, Dec. 16, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force...