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This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 6052, located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules....

This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 6052, located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules.

Commander Scott Kelly, Flight Engineer Tim Kopra and Flight Engineer Tim Peake spread New Year's cheer from the International Space Station.

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The International Symposium on Private and Commercial Spaceflight is a meeting for the industry's top leaders and innovators, but according to the meeting's cofounder, Patricia Hynes, its central purpose is to get studen...

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

Telkom-4 satellite contract with Indonesian operator, announced Dec. 30, helps salvage what had been shaping up as a mediocre year for SSL. SpaceNews.com

This unique method of photography is called steel wool spinning. This image was taken by Nimit Nigam from Kaza, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India on Sept. 17, 2015.

The relatively young technique of direct imaging could help find other Earths, and even life beyond the solar system.

A stable universe is one in a low energy state where particles and forces interact and behave according to theoretical predictions, forever. That's in contrast to metastable, or unstable, meaning a higher energy state in...

I swear I wasn't going to do a "Top Whatevers of 2015" blog post this year, but then the Benevolent Overlords at Slate asked me to do one, and what choice do I have? They're benevolent, but they are overlords. Plus I lik...

The work NASA does, and will continue in 2016, helps the United States maintain its world leadership in space exploration and scientific discovery....

In the middle of the month, Comet Catalina will be visible in the vicinity of the Big Dipper. The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak on Jan 3rd-4th. Several other skywatching targets, including the Orion constellation, a...

The moon, the planets and Pluto will appear on postage stamps in 2016, the U.S. Postal Service has revealed. Three separate stamp sheets will highlight Earth's natural satellite, the eight planets in our solar system and...