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Images in a new book by astronomer James Geach shed light on the genesis and destiny of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors --

This stunning image shows a plane appearing to pass before the sun. Astrophotographer Michael Sanders captured the image from Bangkok, Thailand.

A short science fiction film uses digital recreations of places in the solar system.

NASA's quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins this week with a two-laps-around-Earth test flight.

With access doors at Space Launch Complex 37 opened on Nov. 24, 2014, the Orion spacecraft and Delta IV Heavy stack is visible in its entirety inside the Mobile Service Tower where the vehicle is undergoing launch prepar...

NASA's Exploration Flight Test 1, or EFT-1, will mark the first-ever test flight of the agency's Orion spacecraft for deep-space exploration. See how NASA's Orion EFT-1 space capsule test flight will work here.

First the Geminids (12/13-12/15) and then the Ursid (12/22-12/23) meteors will 'rain' in the night sky in December. Also, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Neptune are great skywatching targets. Comet PanSTARRS a...

Telescope lenses someday might come in aerosol cans. Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are exploring a new type of space telescope with an aperture made of swarms of p...

NASA Breaking News: NASA has approved the completion of Boeing's first milestone in the company's path toward launching crews to the International Space Station from the United States under a groundbreaking Commercial Cr...

Margaret Geller is best known for her work on the large scale structure of the Universe, helping us understand the large clusters, super clusters and cosmic filaments that matter clumps into. (...)Read the rest of Astron...

Astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun-like star using a ground-based telescope for the first time. The transit of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is the shallowest detected fro...

It's a dangerous universe out there, for a budding young space-faring species. Killer comets, planet sterilizing gamma ray bursts, and death rocks from above are all potential hazards that an adolescent civilization has ...

One day - and it really is only matter of time - humans will set foot on the surfaces of other far-flung worlds in our Solar System, leaving the Earth and Moon far behind to wander the valleys of Mars, trek across the ic...

The U.S. effort to develop a robotic asteroid relocation mission reaches a key decision point Dec. 16.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel investigated Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard and Gonzalo in the Atlantic Ocean Basin during the 2014 season.

The satellite, EDRS-C, would be the second geostationary-orbit laser communications node for ESA's European Data Relay System.

See what's up in the night sky for December 2014, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this SPACE.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

A new scientific paper simulates how several rocky Solar System bodies would look if glimpsed at the light-years distance of alien worlds. Across such great spans, exoplanets are just dim specks. But what little light do...

It takes years of painstaking work to get a spacecraft off the ground. So when you have a spacecraft like JUICE (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) set to launch in 2022, you need to back up about a decade to get things fig...

NASA has approved the completion of Boeing's first milestone in the company's path toward launching crews to the International Space Station from the United States under a groundbreaking Commercial Crew Transportation Ca...

Several Americans spent the holiday on top of Mt. Noulja in Abisko National Park on Nov. 27th, 2014. They were treated to an intense northern lights display which was captured by photographer/tour guide Chad Blakley (lig...

The year 2015 is going to be a big one for far-off spacecraft. Among them is the long-running Dawn mission, which is on its way to the asteroid Ceres (by way of Vesta) and should settle into orbit in April after a radiat...