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Photographer Jeffrey Berkes captured this stunning moment as the moon entered full eclipse right when Old Faithful erupted at Yellowstone National Park.

This is pretty amazing: An actual movie taken by a camera on board the New Horizons spacecraft as it passed by Pluto in July! But it's not your ordinary movie... it's actually taking a spectrum of Pluto, mapping out mine...

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeff Thornburg: a propulsion expert who just capped a five-year stint at SpaceX where he led development of the company’s methane-fueled Mars engine, Raptor...

The U.S. Air Force's traditional approach to replacing space systems just doesn't cut it anymore, says Winston Beauchamp, the Air Force deputy undersecretary for space. SpaceNews.com

Traveling about 253 miles over western Mongolia, the unpiloted ISS Progress 62 Russian cargo ship docked automatically with the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station at 5:27 a.m. EST today. Progress...

The Moon, thought to have been created by the collision of a Mars-sized body with the Earth, began as a molten or partially molten body that separated as it cooled into a crust, mantle and core. But the buildup of...

Fabiola Gianotti talks to Nature ahead of taking the helm at Europe's particle-physics laboratory on January 1 --

In the last 1960s and early 1970s, NASA sent a dozen men to the Moon and returned them safely to Earth. Apollo started as a political stunt, a way for America to thumb its nose at the USSR. But along the way, a remarkabl...

Keep your eyes to the night skies because this won't happen again until 2034 --

In a galactic cluster far, far away, a galaxy has grown an unprecedented tail of super-heated gases, providing astronomers with a unique glimpse of an extreme intragalactic environment.

The nature of the bright light that was visible from California, Nevada and Arizona recently was finally revealed. Calming rumors from social media, officials from the government declared that the mysterious light was no...

The DHS recently announced that the TSA's protocols get an update when it comes to advanced image technology. A number of fliers, handpicked by the TSA, lost the ability to opt-out of full body scans.

From deadly supernova radiation to wormholes, Paul Sutter answers his favorite questions of 2015.

United Launch Alliance said it ordered 20 more RD-180 rocket engines from Russia to supplement the 29 engines it ordered before Russia's invasion of the Crimea region of Ukraine last year. SpaceNews.com

If we are living in a multiverse, will we ever really know?

The image was taken by astrophotgrapher Sergio Montúfar on October 16th 2015 from Península Valdés, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, in Argentinian Patagonia.

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