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This stunning visualization by graphic designer Martin Vargic shows the more than 800 exoplanets astronomers have discovered prior to October 2015 arranged according to their temperature and density. SpaceNews.com

On Halloween night, while ghouls and goblins did their trick-or-treating, an asteroid made a close flyby of Earth, and is now headed back out into space.

Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

On Halloween day, the 600-meter-wide asteroid (or dead comet?) 2015 TB145 slid past the Earth at a distance of about 480,000 km. That's pretty close as interplanetary distances go, but still comfortably farther then the ...

This past March, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the wate...

See what's up in the night sky for November 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Now available is the October 21, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Micheal Roberts (CASIS) who discussed "CASIS - Enabling Research on the ISS National Lab for the Benefit of E...

During an Oct. 28 keynote speech at the Center for American Progress, in Washington, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden spoke about the advancement made on the journey to Mars and what lies ahead for future administration...

Last night (Halloween, Oct. 31, 2015) at around 19:00 local time, a smallish bit of cosmic debris entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up over central Europe. It was very bright, and because it happened in the early eve...

Ripples of green hover over the rocky horizon in this bone-chilling image of an aurora.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn's icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 miles (49 kilometers) ...

During the past few years, archaeologists have revealed more than 200 massive Turgai, Kazakhstan earthworks, called Steppe Geoglyphs, or the Turgai Geoglyphs, so large they are not obvious from Earth. They were discovere...