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In the movie Star Wars, the Darth Vader's Death Star destroyed a planet. Could this really happen?

ESA's comet probe Rosetta has for the first time ever measured nitrogen gas at a comet, providing clues to the early stages of the formation of our solar system. The findings of the study, which was led by researchers at...

A module built by Bigelow Aerospace will join the International Space Station later this year in a test of both the company's technology and NASA's use of alternative contracting techniques. The post Bigelow Module Ready...

A dark line more than half a million miles long curves across the lower half of the sun in a gorgeous photo snapped by a NASA spacecraft. The line -- what scientists call a solar filament -- is longer than 67 Earths line...

As today's partial solar eclipse crossed Europe, it was also visible from space. ESA's Proba-2 captured a near-total eclipse from orbit, at the same time as its sister minisatellite Proba-V peered down to snap the shadow...

The Pentagon's congressional overseers appear divided over the timetable for weaning the U.S. Air Force from the RD-180, a matter that sources say likely will not be settled until House and Senate lawmakers meet later th...

Molecular nitrogen - one of the key ingredients that put together the young solar system - has been found on a comet by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. See what the discovery means for our understanding o...

The MDA is developing an experimental network of space-based sensors that would launch aboard commercial satellites and verify whether incoming missiles have been destroyed by defensive interceptors and no longer pose a ...

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Supernovae, neutron star collisions and active galactic nuclei are among the most energetic phenomena in the known universe. These violent explosions produce high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays, which can easily trave...

European space managers Friday ended an eight-day vigil for a wakeup call from the robot lander Philae, but remained hopeful the scout will revive as it rides on a comet nearing the Sun.

A solar eclipse briefly darkened the sky over northern Europe on Friday, and millions used sun viewers ranging from a welder's mask to a dental X-ray to watch the cosmic phenomenon.

Laura Smith-Velazquez is a dreamer - and she has been dreaming of going to space since the first time she looked into a telescope as an 8-year-old, later imagining herself commanding a starship while watching "Star Trek....

University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) newest flagship x-ray ast...

Astronauts on the International Space Station caught sight of an amazing solar eclipse today (March 20), and they have the photos to prove it.

Since our discovery in 2010 that the red spirals identified by your classifications in the first phase of Galaxy Zoo were twice as likely to host galactic scale bars as normal blue spirals, a lot of our research time has...

On March 20, 2015, the Moon passed in front of the Sun ... if you were on the right spot on the planet. Or, better, above it! Let's start off with a special treat: From the ground, master astrophotographer Thierry Legaul...

On Feb. 20, 2015, the planets Venus and Mars joined Earth's moon to create a dazzling sight in the night sky. See photos of the triple conjunction by Space.com readers in our gallery here.

Travel to the Amazon and flick an ant off a leaf, and you might be surprised what you see. Certain rainforest ant species can control their falls and glide back onto the trunks of the trees they came from. Unlike Superma...

Astronauts hoping to sip drinks in style may soon have a cocktail glass concept to look forward to. The Zero Gravity Cocktail Project is aiming to create an open-top glass that can be used in microgravity, using an innov...

Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti took a series of photographs of the March 20, 2015 solar eclipse from the International Space Station....