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US Astronaut Terry Virts flight engineer of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station is in the multi windowed Cupola on Dec. 2, 2014 and has the rising sun in view while over Siberia....

An eclipse passed through the sky in part of the world, a major solar storm rained down on St. Patrick's Day, and "Christmas lights" were seen on Mars. Here are Space.com's picks for the best space stories of the week.

This image of Ireland was taken on 10 March 2015 by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti...

I've been getting some emails and tweets asking why, if the Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Ceres on Mar. 6, haven't we seen any new close-up pictures for nearly three weeks? The answer is not that NASA is covering ...

Iceland, dressed in winter white, peaked through a hole in a complex system of clouds in late February, 2015....

The semi-taboo Titus-Bode relation could provide useful hints about the periods of as-yet-undetected planets around other stars.