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To do so, they looked to a second black hole orbiting the first --

Discovered in 1784 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, NGC 4394 is a barred spiral galaxy situated about 55 million light-years from Earth....

During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. At first, the data from that observation had scientis...

The May 9 transit of Mercury across the sun's face provides a rare opportunity to gauge the size and scale of the solar system.

On Monday (May 9) Mercury will pass across the face of the sun. Here's how to watch the event online, and hear scientists and other experts talk about this rare celestial happening.

Going beyond the Standard Model would "mean that there is yet another unbelievable idea out there. Something that is totally unthinkable," said. The LHC, said CERN senior physicist Paris Sphicas, could unveil whole new d...

What would it take to colonize Venus? The idea is a bit far-fetched right now, but in a hundred years or more, who knows? It might be possible, if our circumstances drive us to try it... and that's the premise for the fo...

On May 3, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility hosted Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and others for an employee town hall and a tour of the Virginia facility - including Pad 0A at the M...