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NASA's New Horizons probe has captured new photos -- which show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon -- with its telescopic camera on Jan. 25 and Jan. 27, when the probe was about 126 million miles (203 million kilometers)...

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.

Planetary scientists have calculated that there are hundreds of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy which might support life.

Turkey's Gokturk-1 high-resolution optical reconnaissance satellite remains stuck, largely completed, in a production facility in France because of last-minute issues between the Turkish government and the satellite's Fr...

If one was to build a universe, here's what you would use.

As enormous new telescopes come online, get ready to imagine the universe in a whole new light.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of the mysterious dwarf planet world Ceres. These latest images, taken on Feb. 4, from a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 km) clearly show ...

How do you build a universe?

The House Science Committee plans to take up a NASA authorization bill once again in February, followed later in the year by an update to commercial launch law. The post House Science Committee To Take Up NASA and Commer...

The rare triple-moon conjunction, which Hubble witnessed on Jan. 24, involved Io, Callisto and Europa -- three of Jupiter's four Galilean moons (so named because they were discovered by astronomer Galileo Galilei in the ...

NASA's Dawn Mission, tentatively scheduled for orbital insertion on March 6th, 2015, shot new images from about 90,000 miles distance. Ceres contains about a third of the entire mass of the Main Belt asteroids.

One of the final remaining structures unique to supporting NASA's space shuttle program is no more. The Mate-Demate Device at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which mounted and removed the orbiters from the back of j...

"According to Planck's observations, stars may be younger than believed, in bearing with other independent astrophysical indicators, and this finding may have major consequences on our attempts to understand the dark com...

LEGO will not be marking the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary by offering its own toy version of the orbiting observatory, despite support from 10,000 of its fans. The Danish company passed on the fan-created mo...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the northeastern U.S. on February 3, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument better known as MODIS captured a visible pictur...

NGA Director Robert Cardillo said the agency must be poised to take advantage of a burgeoning Earth imaging satellite industry but also recognize how the surge in available data could aid the decision-making of the count...

It’s an old story: a couple leave their jobs, sell everything, and live in motorhome to capture footage and imagery of the night sky. Wait… what? This unique story is exactly what Brad and Marci Goldpaint did. They l...

These new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture a rare occurrence as three of Jupiter's largest moons parading across the giant gas planet's banded face. Hubble took a string of images of the event which show th...

Viatcheslav Mukhanov, cosmologist at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, models the first instants after the creation of our Universe. Data from the Planck telescope have now confirmed beyond any reasonable ...

Data from the Planck telescope have confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt a theory of the quantum origin of structure in the Universe. What exactly happened after the Universe was born? Why did stars, planets and huge ga...

The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera caught Io, Callisto and Europa and their shadows passing across the face of Jupiter on Jan. 23rd, 2015, which happens only once or twice per decade.

In case your nightmares have lacked inspiration lately, here is a photo of me I took, playing with my iPhone's panorama function. I sat in my office chair, started the shot, and then just stared into the camera as I spun...