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(Note: Awesome images are being added as they come in!) It's not every day you get to see a planet pass in front of the Sun. But today, skywatchers worldwide got to see just that, as diminutive Mercury passed in front of...

"This work reminds me of Darwin's voyage aboard The Beagle, exploring the vast diversity of life by sailing around the world," says Nancy Y. Kiang, PhD, Senior Editor of Astrobiology and a scientist at NASA Goddard Insti...

Space Systems Loral, seeking to expand its government business, has named a longtime Bigelow Aerospace executive as its new head of Washington operations. SpaceNews.com

Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a vast shell called a Dyso...

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft orbited Mercury for four years before its planned plunge to the planet’s surface on April 30, 2015. On May 6, 2016 NASA, USGS, and their university partners... --

An international team of astrophysicists, including Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton, have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to the Earth....

Since we first started placing objects into space there have been 11 known low Earth orbit collisions, and three known collisions at geostationary orbit. Think of it: 135 space shuttle flights, all of the Apollo, Gemini ...

Monday's briefing begins with video showing China's Long March 7 being shipped out to its new spaceport for its upcoming maiden launch. SpaceNews.com

Here's your look at what's happening the week of May 9, 2016 courtesy of FIRST UP SpaceNews.com

A stunning digital model of Mercury unveils the planet's striking landscape, while other new maps provide a closer look at the shadowed northern pole and reveal the highest and lowest points on the closest planet to the ...

Almost everything we know about matter is summed up in the Standard Model of particle physics, an elegant map of the subatomic world. During the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists on the ATLAS and C...

Billed as the largest piece of Skylab in private hands, Regency-Superior Auctioneers of St. Louis is offering a 300-pound artifact as a part of its online space memorabilia sale.

For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the Earth and sun on Monday, resembling a black dot against the vast, glowing face of our star.

The Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta, Canada, continues to burn and the smoke and heat from the intense fires are detectable by satellite....

An international team of astrophysicists, including Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton, have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to the Earth.

Mercury passes between Earth and the Sun just 13 times a century, on average—and it's happening right now --

The planet Mercury is making its way across the face of the sun (as seen from Earth) in a rare transit event today (May 9). See our first video of the sight from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

This week, astronomers are preparing for one of the highlights of the sky-watchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all line up -- a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century. The closest planet ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Everything about SpaceX seems exciting right now. In April, SpaceX successfully landed their reusable rocket, the Falcon 9, on a droneship at sea. Also in April, SpaceX announced that they intend to send a Dragon capsule...

An instrument on board the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago. These atoms were found in t...

It's mesmerizing! That's the overwhelming feeling expressed among the fortunate few setting their own eyeballs on the newly exposed golden primary mirror at the heart of NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -...