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As SpaceX joins Boeing in completing the first milestones in their commercial crew contracts, the companies and NASA are awaiting a bid-protest decision now due in less than two weeks. The post SpaceX Completes First Com...

What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s actually worked?* Then with those our Sun might look something like this, lighting up with brilliant...

Russia on Tuesday successfully test-launched its newest heavy-class Angara rocket, which has been developed with a view to launching manned spacecraft, the defence ministry said.

Astronomers have spotted a new object emerging from the ashes of a recently deceased star. The stellar post-mortem may also solve a mystery surrounding the unexpected shape of the star's explosive remains, scientists say...

Two close encounters with a comet, clues about Martian history and more amazing discoveries top Space.com's list of the best astronomy stories of the year.

The wrench, along with the 19 other objects built by the orbiting 3D printer thus far, will travel to Earth early next year, where engineers will compare the objects with ground samples produced by the same machine befor...

Technicians successfully attached a key structure called a "carry-through spar" to the body of XCOR Aerospace's Lynx rocket plane just before Thanksgiving, at a hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, comp...

A NASA satellite has snapped a picture of Christmas from space, Christmas Island, that is. The space agency's Aqua satellite, responsible for monitoring Earth's water in its many forms, caught sight of the island in the ...

See the most amazing night sky photos of 2014 by amateur astronomers and stargazers around the world in our year-end gallery here. Solar eclipses, the moon and more wowed Space.com readers this year.

In 2014, NASA took significant steps on the agency's journey to Mars -- testing cutting-edge technologies and making scientific discoveries while studying our changing Earth and the infinite universe as the agency made p...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: If you're looking for Christmas, NASA's Aqua satellite found it in the Pacific Ocean. It's a coral atoll in the northern Line Islands that is part of the Republic of Kiribati.

Perhaps the only surprise in the election of Germany's Johann-Dietrich Woerner as director-general of the European Space Agency is that Woerner agreed to do what was necessary to get the job. The post DLR’s Woerner To ...

This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater....

"We now have a much deeper and specific insight into the earliest oxygen-water system in the solar system," said Mark Thiemens, a professor of chemistry at UC San Diego. "The question that remains is when did planets, Ea...

NASA announced Tuesday the selection of four U.S. companies to collaborate with NASA through unfunded partnerships to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers. The partnerships build...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The free weather and environment mobile apps received development support from NOAA and NASA.

It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or making their way to Mars. Private companies also figure prominently, both in terms of successes and promine...

Phew! It's here. Now in its seventh year of compilation and the second year running on Universe Today, we're proud to feature our list of astronomical happenings for the coming year. Print it, bookmark it, hang it on you...

On Dec. 10, ESA announced the latest important discovery regarding comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet has found the water vapor from its target to be significantly different to that fo...

Mars is a very harsh and hostile environment for future human explorers and like any other known planet it has no breathable air. That could change someday, and it may be soon enough for our generation to witness it, as ...

Most celestial events unfold over thousands of years or more, making it impossible to follow their evolution on human timescales....

Late last week, I posted an article about Mayim Bialik and the issues of celebrities promoting science--specifically, including her in a picture of four other actresses who hold degrees or have published in scientific fi...