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Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse by a gigantic exoplanet’s complex ring system, similar to Saturn�...

Imagery captured from Saturday through Monday (Jan. 24 to Jan. 26) by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's GOES-East spacecraft shows the storm's development and movement --

The Moon has long been viewed as a crucial component in creating an environment suitable for the evolution of complex life on Earth, but a number of scientific results in recent years have shown that perhaps our planet d...

NASA Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California obtained radar imagery of asteroid 2004 BL86, that flew by Earth at ~3.1 times the distance of the Moon on Jan. 26th, 2015.

The newfound exoplanets circle a star that's 11.2 billion years old and are all Venus-size or smaller. They are, therefore, all rocky, though scientists know nothing else about their composition.

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission will measure the soil moisture on Earth.

While the Falcon Heavy is not slated to make its launch debut any sooner than July, thanks to this two-and-a-half minute animated video SpaceX released Jan. 27, you don't have to wait to see what this behemoth will look ...

This is the second animation from Dawn this year showing Ceres rotating, and at 43 pixels across the images are officially the best ever obtained! NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is now on final approach to the 950 km (590 mile...

Slated to be the world's most powerful rocket when it flies, Falcon Heavy will attempt to return it's core stage and boosters for rapid refurbishment and reuse. SpaceX is confident its accuracy will be sufficient to park...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: "Hmm, what's that?" Simply by asking the question, volunteers have led researchers to illuminate a little-known stage of massive star formation.

Tantalizing new images of the nearest dwarf planet to Earth are revealing never-before-seen surface features of the mysterious space rock.

Compared to other galaxies, the Milky Way is a peaceful place. But it hasn't always been so sleepy. In 2010, a team of scientists working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of "Fermi bub...

Sometimes it takes a village to find new and unusual objects in space....

Intriguing data from an event in 2007 hints at an exomoon forming around a giant planet in a youthful star system 420 light years from Earth. --

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft ...

Some four years ago, a citizen scientist helping the Milky Way Project study Spitzer Space Telescope images for the tell-tale bubble patterns of star formation noticed something else.

Boeing and SpaceX are on track to start launching astronauts to the International Space Station --

NASA cannot put astronauts on Mars in the 2030s under current funding, experts interviewed for an unreleased movie say.

Airlines are giving passengers more access to Wi-Fi but connectivity still isn't perfect, according to a new report. Today, 52 airlines offer in-flight Wi-Fi to passengers.

The cosmos is continually in motion. Be it atoms, stars or snowflakes from the latest nor'easter pounding the New England seaboard, anything worth studying involves movement. And as skies and snowbound roads clear, this ...

Today: Advanced Plant Experiment (APEX) 03-1: Wilmore prepared the Maintenance Work Area (MWA), gathered the APEX hardware, and configured the Advanced Biological Research System (ABRS) photo grid....

Shareholders of ATK and Orbital Sciences Corp. approved the merger of the two companies in separate votes Jan. 27, clearing the way for the merger to close in early February. The post ATK and Orbital Shareholders Approve...