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Iran launched an observation satellite Monday--its first since 2012--with President Hassan Rouhani declaring it safely entered orbit and that he had personally ordered the mission.

So you're in an elevator, or at a party, or eating dinner with relatives, and someone says, "I don't get what's the big deal about climate change. What's going on?" What do you say? That depends on who you are and what y...

With an estimated 1.6 billion tonnes of water ice at its poles and an abundance of rare-earth elements hidden below its surface, the moon is rich ground for mining.

About a year after it proposed grounding the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the White House asked Congress to increase the budget for the telescope-equipped 747 aircraft. The post NASA Does Abo...

From the vantage point of a window in an insane asylum, Vincent van Gogh painted one of the most noted and valued artistic works in human history. It was the summer of 1889. With his post-impressionist paint strokes, Sta...

Although zebrafish are not deadlifting weights in orbit, they are helping researchers learn about muscle changes during their stay aboard the International Space Station. This impacts not only the fish, but also the crew...

It only makes sense. Sunlight heats a comet and causes ice to vaporize. This leads to changes in the appearance of surface features. For instance, the Sun’s heat can eat away at the ice on sunward-facing cliffs, hollow...

The White House is requesting a $500 million boost for the NASA budget in 2016, potentially propelling the space agency on its way toward sending humans to Mars in the future, the agency's chief said Monday.

Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the Solar System, ordered in size by mean radius. Engineer Radu Stoicescu put this great graphic together, using the...

Perimeter Institute: New Analysis Refutes Gravitational Wave ClaimsMonday Feb 02, 2015 New research has overturned a widely publicized claim about the beginnings of the universe.

Given the COSMIC satellite system's utility in space and terrestrial weather, COSMIC-2 would seem like an easy sell. However, the program has run into criticism, putting UCAR's Thomas Bogdan on the defensive. The post Fo...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden unveiled the agency's budget request at Kennedy Space Center with an upbeat State of the Agency speech attended by NASA's social media followers and a smattering of professional news rep...

One of the least likely places you might think astronomers would learn about ancient supernovae is at the bottom of the ocean but scientists have done just that -- also dredging up a mystery.

Workers at various NASA centers recite copy written for unknown purposes pertaining to non-specific agency endeavors.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Preparations to launch NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, near completion in the Building 1 high bay of the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusvill...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." Venus and Mars huddle together on cold February nights, and star clusters are prominent in the month's constel...

The White House is seeking $18.5 billion for NASA in its fiscal year 2016 budget proposal released Feb. 2, including "immediate initiation" of a new Landsat spacecraft. The post White House Proposes $18.5 Billion Budget ...

Last March, international researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole claimed that they detected primordial “B-mode” polarization of the cosmic mi...

The February digest of upcoming space, astronomy and geophysics events. This month sees the launch of an experimental European spacecraft, conferences on the nature of plate tectonics, new ways of studying the universe a...

Even the Super Bowl had something for space fans. Quite a few advertisers used the glory of outer space to their advantage last night (Feb. 1) during the big game.

See what's up in the night sky for February 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this SPACE.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Amateur astronomer Keith Hanssen took this image of the Orion Nebula in November from Montana.