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"How far can you see with that thing?" It's a common question overhead at many public star parties in reference to telescopes.

ESA's IXV spaceplane, launched on a Vega rocket on 11 February, is now on its way to Europe for detailed study in Italy.

The photo, which was released today (Feb. 24), is a composite of dozens of images taken in late January by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager. The mosaic provides a great view of the "Pahrump Hills" outcrop at the base of...

The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, on Feb. 24 announced that it will remain a part of the international space station until 2024 before detaching the Russian modules and forming its own outpost in low Earth orbit. The ...

In the near future, astronauts will be able to take private space taxis to the to the International Space Station. Today, two NASA astronauts will complete the second of three spacewalks to prepare the station for the ar...

NASA will launch a new telecommunications orbiter to the red planet in 2022 to follow the sample-caching Mars 2020 rover, the agency's new Mars czar said Feb. 24. The post NASA Eyes New Mars Orbiter for 2022 appeared fir...

What does it take to craft an invisibility cloak?

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

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Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time. The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the...

Planets spinning on their sides were long thought to have climates too extreme for life as it is known on Earth, but now scientists find that these "rotisserie" worlds might be more hospitable.

(AP)--Early risers across much of Arizona were treated to a colorful sight--a pink cloud from a NASA research rocket that was launched Wednesday from a U.S. Army installation in New Mexico.

An American astronaut found water pooling inside his helmet after he finished a six-plus hour spacewalk on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the safety of NASA's spacesuits.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate is seeking proposals from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of outstanding early-career faculty members who are beginning independent research careers....

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: A galaxy about 100 million light years away with an intermediate-mass black hole in one of its spiral arms.

Imagine: An entire UK plunged into darkness. Narrative for a science fiction trailer? Not at all. In parts of Europe, said Mirror Online, almost 90 per cent of the sun's rays will be blocked.

Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object....

An ancient, global-scale collision could explain the Red Planet’s mysterious “two-faced” appearance --

2015 an exciting year for solar system exploration and discovery.

From the International Space Station, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph of Chicago and posted it to social media on Feb. 19, 2015....

Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time. The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the...

Pour batter onto a griddle and watch the mixture spread out into a round-shaped pancake. The movement is similar to the flow of piedmont glaciers, which form when ice spills from a steep valley onto a relatively flat pla...