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Sara Seager shares her thoughts on how far scientists have come in understanding exoplanets in 2015.

What causes holes to appear in the middle of some planetary nurseries? New high-definition observations suggest the holes may be created by Jupiter-class planets orbiting the parent star.

The geomagnetic storming watch for 30 December has been upgraded to a G3 (Strong), with a G1 (Minor) storming watch still in effect for 31 December....

Congress directed NASA in the final 2016 spending bill to accelerate work on a habitation module that could be used for future deep space missions.

The service awards $3.1 million to Orbital ATK, $6 million to Aerojet Rocketdyne and $5.4 million to Northrop Grumman.

As the agricultural season continues in Western Africa, fires dot the landscape from Guinea to Benin....

The current strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean shows no signs of waning, as seen in the latest satellite image from the U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 mission....

Still looking for the perfect calendar for 2016? Don't start the year without the new Year In Space Wall Calendar! Published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, the large-format Wall Calendar as well as the spiral...

2015 was an amazing year in space, as worlds such as Pluto and Ceres snapped into sharp focus. 2015 also underlined the mantra that 'space in hard,' as SpaceX rode the roller coaster from launch failure, to a dramatic re...

ESA astronaut and Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) photographed the Alps from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 27, 2015....

Astrophotographer Ken Lee took the image of the glittering Milky Way from Arches National Park in Utah.

More than 20,000 newly released documents reveal intriguing details about the U.S. Air Force's MOL program, which ran from December 1963 until its cancellation in June 1969.

Twenty years ago, Michel Mayor helped discover the first planet orbiting a sunlike star outside Earth's solar system. Space.com talked to Mayor about where the field of exoplanet hunting has been, and where it's going.

At a time when our earliest human ancestors mastered walking upright the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour. Now, at least 2 m...

New Horizons:

Scientists at the Max Planck Society have investigated the hypothesis that the first protein domains arose by fusion and piecemeal growth from an ancestral set of simple peptides, which themselves emerged in an RNA-based...

NASA will host a news conference for the next crew launching to the International Space Station, featuring NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

In an off-planet exploration first, the Mars Science Laboratory has investigated an active sand dune. The work is being performed to understand the physics and composition of the moving sand.

The 'eye' of the Taurus (the bull) constellation is K5 giant star Aldeberan and it's 35-40 times the diameter of the Sun. Jupiter rises above the horizon late in the evening while Mars rises in the early morning.

Wednesday's briefing begins with gardening woes aboard the International Space Station and word that Sea Launch hopes to resume launches in 2016. SpaceNews.com

Years ago, my wife and I were thinking of moving out of California. We decided to travel around a bit over time and see what caught our fancy. One destination we loved was Oregon; it was beautiful, the people where we vi...

When beholding the sheer size and majesty of mountains, ancient humans could not help but feel that they were standing in the presence of something... godlike. And within the belief systems of many ancient cultures, it w...