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Ballistic capture may make Mars travel cheaper as fuel needs are reduced by 25 percent. The new method may have advantages, but travel time to Mars will lengthen.

The cavities shown in the image of galaxy cluster MS0735 above were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lu...

Maybe you’ve seen Comet Q2 Lovejoy. It’s a big fuzzy ball in binoculars low in the southern sky in the little constellation Lepus the Hare. That’s the comet’s coma or temporary atmosphere of dust and gas that for...

It is no mystery how Uummannaq Island got its name. In Greenlandic, the word means "heart-shaped," an apt description for the multi-peaked mountain that towers over the 12 square kilometer (5 square mile) island....

US Astronaut Barry (Butch) Wilmore captured this ominous but interesting cloud formation aboard the International Space Station on 9 December 2014. iss042e033298 (12/09/2014) --- Larger image...

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this stunning view of the Americas on 12.13.14, December 13, 2014 at 17:45 UTC. The data from GOES-East was made into an image by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Fli...

"There might be people living out there, out in the middle of cold dark space, that don't have a Milky Way," says Harvey Moseley, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Astronomer...

One of the problems with astronomy is best portrayed by an old joke: At night, a cop notices a kid under a street light, looking intently all around him. The cop walks over and asks, "What are you doing, son?" The kid re...

Video Caption: Watch the Earth roll by through the perspective of German astronaut Alexander Gerst in this 4K six-minute timelapse video of images taken from on board the International Space Station (ISS) during 2014. Cr...