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Dawn is scheduled to reach Ceres -- the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- Thursday night. The probe has been headed for Ceres since September 2012, when it departed Vesta, the asteroid be...

"This new concept is, potentially, as drastic an enlargement of our cosmic perspective as the shift from pre-Copernican ideas to the realization that the Earth is orbiting a typical star on the edge of the Milky Way." Si...

(AP)--Spacewalking astronauts successfully completed a three-day cable job outside the International Space Station on Sunday, routing several-hundred feet of power and data lines for new crew capsules commissioned by NAS...

The purpose of the outings was to prepare berthing slips for spaceships being developed by Boeing and SpaceX --

Astronomers discovered the most gigantic black hole yet known and Leonard Nimoy -- Mr. Spock from the beloved "Star Trek" series -- passed away at the age of 83. Here are Space.com's pics for the top space stories of the...

The countdown is on to the launch of Apollo 18 and you're invited to witness it from New York City's Times Square. 'Apollo XVIII' by artist Marco Brambilla weaves footage from NASA missions with computer renderings to fo...

Our understanding of this planet has evolved in step with scientific progress --

On Feb. 25, International Space Station Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA continued rigging power and data cables during the second in a series of three spacewalks to prepare for installatio...

After four years, what have we learned about the innermost planet? --

Part of the vast Hank and John Green video empire includes SciShow, a YouTube channel that has a variety of different science shows on it, like SciShow Dose (quick videos on interesting topics), News, Infusion (longer vi...

NASA's first mission dedicated to study the process in nature known as magnetic reconnection undergoing final preparation for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in just under two weeks time. The Magnetospheric Multiscal...

Sam Cristoforetti @AstroSamantha "Of all the souls I have encountered.. his was the most human." Thx @TheRealNimoy for bringing Spock to life for us....

We all know and love the moon. We're so assured that we only have one that we don't even give it a specific name.