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As the legendary space telescope enters its twilight years, astronomers are searching for a replacement, but no one agrees about what it should accomplish --

A public astronomy event at the Intrepid air and Space Museum in New York City featured a talk by Mason Peck, director of Cornell University's Space System's Design Studio and NASA's former chief technologist.

Next week, a visual and infrared camera designed at Arizona State University will pass 60,000 orbits of the Red Planet.

June 21st is an important day this year. Not only is it the summer solstice (that is to say, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere), but it is also one of the longest days ever in the history of the Eart...

From a breathtaking view of Saturn's Dione to the 'Spit of Satan,' check out these amazing space images.

Crashed comet lander Philae phones home. A dead satellite falls to Earth. Mars shows both methane-laced meteorites and a possibly icy past, and the moon's dust gets a source in the best of this week's space news.

Now available is the June 10, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Doug Craig (NASA HQ HEOMD) who discussed "An Overview of NASA's Evolvable Mars Campaign"....

"A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time. It may have been created...

Why is it so many of us are excited about the New Horizons mission to Pluto? This. This is why. That video was created by Erik Wernquist, the brilliant mind behind Wanderers, what I consider one of the best paeans to exp...

Early summer is an "in-between" time in the skies. The realm of the galaxies has moved off to the west, but the summer Milky Way has not yet arrived. This is the best time of year to observe globular clusters and double ...

Dads everywhere will celebrate Father's Day today (June 21), and the Earth is joining the fun this year with the summer solstice, kicking off the first day of the northern summer.