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Astronomers keeping an eye on Jupiter's moon Io got a surprise on Dec. 16 when it looked like something had taken a bite out of it: What they saw was another of Jupiter's moons, Europa, passing directly in front of Io, w...

Aboard the International Space Station: this image is a Close-up view of hardware for a chemistry experiment and was taken in the Rassvet Mini-Research Module....

Sunlight. Moonlight. Starlight. I saw all three for the first time in weeks yesterday. Filled with photons, I feel lighter today, less burdened. Have you been under the clouds too? Let’s hope it’s clear tonight becau...

The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully demonstrated the heavy-lift version of its long-awaited Angara series of rockets Dec. 23 from the Plesetsk Cosmosrome in northern Russia, the agency said.

The galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is seen here in two different lights. A visible-light view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is at left, and an X-ray view from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is at right....

A Russian Proton rocket on Dec. 28 successfully placed the Astra 2G satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, a launch whose delay forced satellite owner SES to reorganize its future military telecommunications joint ...

This image shows a slice through almost 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) of ice spanning a few hundred kilometers on each side of the South Pole...

Four bleary-eyed men wearing grease-smeared tan jackets or red parkas emerge from what first appears to be a leftover prop from a Mad Max film. Nine silver smokestacks tower above nine fire-engine-red hot water tanks, al...

Venus may have once possessed strange oceans of carbon dioxide fluid that helped shape the planet's surface, researchers say.