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Rosetta is making good progress in one of its key investigations, which concerns the interaction between the comet and the solar wind.

With a thunderous rattle, the Cessna 172 aircraft plowed into the soil as its windshield shattered, its wings wrenched off and its fuselage flipped--tail over nose--onto its back.

Members of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) science team are asking the public to help them categorize strange features near the Red Planet's south pole for further study and analysis.

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be heading for space a third time, as part of Expeditions 52 and 53 to the International Space Station. He will be launched on a Soyuz vehicle in May 2017 on a five-month mission.

Soaring, snow-capped peaks and ridges of the eastern Himalaya Mountains create an irregular white-on-red patchwork between major rivers in southwestern China....

Using a climate model that can tag sources of soot from different global regions and can track where it lands on the Tibetan Plateau, researchers have determined which areas around the plateau contribute the most soot --...

Brown dwarfs are relatively cool, dim objects that are difficult to detect and hard to classify....

NASA has selected three finalists for its next Small Explorer astrophysics mission and two finalists for the even smaller Explorer Missions of Opportunity Line, the U.S. space agency said July 30 The post NASA Picks Fina...

This month the European Space Agency took a major step closer to an ambitious exploration of Jupiter and its icy moons.

This is an astronomy story that comes up only once in a blue moon, like on Friday. Maybe.

This gorgeous satellite view of the busy Big Apple as seen from orbit offers a glimpse into the new 'My Planet From Space' exhibit currently underway at the United Nations.

NASA has selected five proposals submitted to its Explorers Program to conduct focused scientific investigations and develop instruments that fill the scientific gaps between the agency's larger missions.

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a potential gold mine of science data. Dubbed HD 219134b, this ex...

Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star--one of them likely a volcanic world of molten rock.

Despite its tranquil-sounding name, new imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dusty nebula shaped by "intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation." It is located in the...

Tory Bruno, the president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance, took to Twitter to discuss the heritage of his company's new Vulcan rocket and unveil a new infographic. The post From Atlas to Vulcan: 34 Years of...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency now envisions a partnership with the U.S. Air Force on a system that would also perform space surveillance. The post MDA Eyes Shared Constellation for Missile Tracking, Space Surveillance ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitati...

Last week, 20,000 screaming fans swamped YouTube celebrities at the world’s largest online video conference in Anaheim, California. Alongside the young celebrity musicians, beauty... --

Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae hot, glowing clouds of gas....

Since 2010, the best estimate of the age of Earth's magnetic field has been 3.45 billion years. But now a researcher responsible for that finding has new data showing the magnetic field is far older.

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a potential gold mine of science data....