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Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca took the image from Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy. The dots forming a curved figure-8 in the sky mark where the sun appeared every day at the same time in a pattern called an analemma.

Zinnia plants growing aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have staged a dramatic New Year's comeback from a potential near death experience over the Christmas holidays, when traces of mold were discovered. And i...

Physicists around the world were puzzled recently when an unusual bump appeared in the signal of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, causing them to wonder if it was a n...

Mars' seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes directly from ice to vapor) every spring....

Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas....

Another year of skywatching is upon us, and there's a lot to look forward to in 2016 --

"The Martian" won for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (yes, the harrowing tale of survival against long odds is apparently a comedy), and star Matt Damon took home the Best Actor hardware in the same category.

Moriba Jah, an SSA expert with the U.S. Air Force, will direct a new space object behavioral sciences initiative encompassing satellite tracking and space traffic management. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX will try again Sunday to land its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform, one month after successfully returning the rocket's first stage to an upright landing on solid ground.

The odds aren't great. Engineers don't even know if Philae still has a working receiver and the probe could be covered in dust.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake recorded a message for Queen Elizabeth II. He believes he may be the first to utter the phrase 'God Save The Queen' from above the atmosphere.

Astronauts, scientists and members of the spaceflight industry are joining people all over the world in mourning the death of music icon David Bowie, who passed away yesterday (Jan. 10).

Follow the ripples! That's what scientists have done to pinpoint the location of a dwarf galaxy, composed mainly of dark matter, that disrupted our Milky Way galaxy. A billion-year time-lapse reveals the path it traveled...

ESA Science & Technology :

Just when you think you've seen it all, our eyes look to be victims of a low-gravity environments, too. According to new research published in the January 2016 issue of The FASEB Journal, two significant genetic differen...

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It is easy to forget just how large Saturn is, at around 10 times the diameter of Earth....

Monday's briefing begins with Bigelow Aerospace President Robert Bigelow briefly diving into presidential politics. SpaceNews.com

"Directly sampling Europa's ocean represents a major technological challenge and is likely far in the future," Fischer said CalTech geobiologist Woody Fischer. "But if we can sample deposits left behind in the chaos area...

A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter and explain ripples in the outer disk of....

Perimeter Institute:

I've been seeing an uptick in my social media feeds over the past couple of weeks about anti-vaxxers and their dangerous nonsense. As usual, they're upset because the real world has once again contradicted their view of ...