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Glaciers are one of the largest reservoirs of freshwater on our planet, and their melting or growing is one of the best indicators of climate change. However, knowledge of glacier change has been hampered by lack of data...

A dying star's final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades.

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths--planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. If so, those planets are long gone-...

A prototype Asteroid Prospector Flyer is put into a tumble at the Swamp Works Lab before correcting and stabilizing itself using tiny jets. The prototype is in development as part of the Extreme Access Flyer effort....

An alien aurora 1 million times brighter than Earth's, robots building a moon telescope, a $5.5 billion asteroid and more in Space.com's top news stories of the week.

It's a tech geek's dream in the underwater lab hosting four "aquanauts" for 14 days this month. Among the crew's need-to-have items is a cutting-edge Microsoft virtual-reality headset that one day will go to space itself...

A second full moon for the month of July is seen next to the dome of the U.S. Capitol on Friday, July 31, 2015 in Washington. In recent years, people have been using the name Blue Moon for the second of two full moons in...

If you ever wonder why I love living in Colorado, well, maybe this'll help. That video was shot by Daniel Lowe as he drove through western Colorado and eastern Utah. Where I live there's substantial light pollution, but ...