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Three of Saturn's moons -- Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas -- are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft....

Pluto's frozen nitrogen custard "heart" has certainly received its share of attention. Dozens of wide and close-up photos homing on this fascinating region rimmed by mountains and badlands have been relayed back to Earth...

The oldest known stars, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just 300 million years old were found near the center of the Milky Way, surprisingly pure but containing material from an even...

Tim Peake ‏@astro_timpeake Stunning pass over the Himalayas this morning #Principia Larger image...

By studying data from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, the seventh planet from the Sun, French scientists confirmed that a ninth planet might exist in the far reaches of our solar system, co-author Jacques Lask...

I love Cassini shots of Saturn that make me do a double-take. The image above (taken on Feb. 11, 2016) is a little confusing, isn't it? It took me a second to figure it out, but then it clicked into place. What you're se...

From found meteorites to the new SpaceShipTwo Plane, don't miss these great space images.

Gabon, a Central African country slightly smaller than the state of Colorado, is home to one of the most pristine rainforests on the planet....

A "spy" turns to science, space rocks are spotted in Florida. and aliens will not be getting a record deal. These are Space.com's top stories of the week.

Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky than anywhere else. The ...

Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a WolfRayet star known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel)....

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Data from the DZero experiment shows evidence of a particle containing four different types of quarks --