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When the land is untouched, so is the nighttime sky.

One of the surest signs of spring for stargazers is seeing the constellation Leo high in the evening sky. Here's how to spot Leo, and what to look for within it.

New research proposes that chondrules, small glassy beads that make up the bulk of the most primitive meteorites, played a crucial role in the formation of planets. Simulations developed by scientists at the American Mus...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel (@astVintageSpace) discussing space history and her new book Breaking the Chains of Gravity Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) (...)R...

The SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle arrived at the International Space Station after it was launched atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida....

Ceres' cratered north pole blazes through the darkness in new images captured by Dawn on April 10. The photos are the highest-resolution views of the world that Dawn has gotten since entering orbit on March 6, NASA offic...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

An international team of scientists have put forward a blueprint for a purely space-based system to solve the growing problem of space debris. The proposal, published in Acta Astronautica, combines a super-wide field-of-...

The cataclysmic collision between Earth and a Mars-size object that forged the moon occurred about 4.47 billion years ago, a study of meteorites with ancient fragments from that cosmic impact reveal.

This week, scientists with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration released the first in a series of detailed maps charting the distribution of dark matter inferred from its gravitational effects. The new maps confirm...

Astronomers have shown for the first time how star formation in "dead" galaxies sputtered out billions of years ago....

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden faced strong criticism of his proposed 2016 budget during a pair of congressional hearings in Washington April 16, including questions about the future of the agency's Asteroid Redirect ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology have used the giant telescope Alma to reveal an extremely powerful magnetic field very close to a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy....

NASA is exercising its second cost-plus-award-fee option to extend the period of performance with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide test evaluation and support services at the agency's White Sand...

The most far-seeing search ever performed for “Dyson spheres” and other artifacts of “astroengineering” comes up empty. Where is everybody? --

Quick: What's the hottest planet in the solar system? You might think Mercury, because it's the closest to the Sun. But in fact, it's not! Venus is hotter due to its runaway greenhouse effect. But that's not to say Mercu...

Watch video replays of the daily sessions of the IAA Planetary Defence Conference, recorded 13-17 April 2015 at ESA/ESRIN

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has answered with a qualified "yes" the question of whether a British company's revolutionary air-breathing rocket engine, designed for a vertical-takeoff vehicle climbing to...

Our week through the lens: 13-17 April 2015

On April 18, 2014 an immense avalanche on the Nepal (south) side of Mt. Everest killed 16 climbers. How did it happen?...

The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is less than a day away from arriving at the International Space Station. The Expedition 43 crew is getting ready for its arrival and five-week stay at the Earth-facing port of th...

"Massive dead spheroids contain about half of all the stars that the Universe has produced during its entire life," said Sandro Tacchella of ETH Zurich in Switzerland, lead author of the article. "We cannot claim to unde...