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NASA's Messenger probe, which has been orbiting Mercury since March 2011, is nearly out of fuel and will smash into the planet on Thursday (April 30). NASA released a new Messenger video on Monday (April 27) as a tribute...

Ever since NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived in the vicinity of dwarf planet Ceres, the world has been abuzz with theories as to what those mysterious white spots may be.

NASA researchers, working in concert with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and FlexSys Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan, successfully completed initial flight tests of a new morphing wing technology that has the pote...

We have just entered a very favorable period for observing the so-called "elusive" planet Mercury. From now, until about May 13, you should be able to find it with not much difficulty. But how well do you know the closes...

New photos of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have revealed tantalizing hints at surface features on the dwarf planet, including signs of a polar ice cap. See the photos from new Hor...

This seven-image panorama shows the Milky Way above Cape Neddick Light Station in York, Maine. Astrophotographer A. Garrett Evans took this image on March 25 around just before the start of astronomical sunrise.

For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto - the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.

A Progress robotic delivery spacecraft that launched toward the International Space Station suffered a serious malfunction shortly after liftoff --

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Dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon are seen to orbit one another in this set of images from NASA's Pluto New Horizons LORRI camera, taken when the spacecraft was about 90 days out from its closest encounter.

For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto - the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.

At a press conference on Wednesday astronomers working on the New Horizons space probe revealed new images that show surface features on Pluto for the first time! The probe was just over 100 million kilometers from Pluto...

The remains of thousands of stars might exist in a vast graveyard near the giant black hole that's at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, researchers say.

On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA’s long-running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet’s... --

Jupiter's aurora -- constant curtains and waves of electric-blue colors high in the murky brown atmosphere -- flare up because of an effect that has nothing to do with the sun and everything to do with the gas giant's mo...

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today is featuring "13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13," discussing different turning points of the mission with NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill. The nig...

Space station astronauts have finally hit the big time, at least when it comes to the big screen.

Your AI tour guide awaits you at the new Museum of Science Fiction.

The 'Space Spider' handheld 3D scanner can work in microgravity and features an advanced cooling system that prevents overheating -- a common issue for electronics in space, said representatives of the company that devel...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have created an amazing 3D image of the iconic 'Pillars of Creation', a 7000 light years-distant region of the Eagle Nebula made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope...

Russian controllers have called off any attempt to dock an out-of-control Progress cargo spacecraft with the International Space Station, NASA announced April 29. The post Progress Docking Called Off appeared first on Sp...

Groundbreaking images of the Sun captured by scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) give a first-ever detailed view of the interior structure of umbrae - the dark patches in the center of sunspots - revea...