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Thirteen times a century, on average, Mercury passes directly between Earth and the sun, creating what astronomers call a transit. It just happened again; this video, created with images from the... --

I'm a big fan of comedian John Oliver's show, Last Week Tonight. Unlike other satirical news programs, he tends to take one topic and does a deep dive, really getting into the nitty-gritty on why some particular thing is...

Mercury popped onto the solar disc at 7:16 a.m. EDT (1116 GMT) Monday and departed more than 7 hours later, completing the first "Mercury transit" since 2006. Observers around the world were ready, and many captured stun...

From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity. Eruptions called solar flares and coronal mass ejections explode in the sun's hot atmosphere, the co...

On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth. No one had a better view of the event than the space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory, as it had a completely unobstructed view of the entire seven-and-a...

Finding atomic oxygen in the Martian atmosphere is very difficult to do, which explains why it's been 40 years since it was last detected. In the 1970's, NASA's Viking and Mariner missions detected Martian atmospheric ox...

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets - the single largest finding of planets to date.

Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth's solar system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10, it is...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth's solar system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10, it is...

Since Kepler launched in 2009, 21 planets less than twice the size of Earth have been discovered in the habitable zones of their stars. The orange spheres represent the nine newly validated planets announcement on May 10...

OK, one more Mercury transit video. But trust me. You'll like this one. Thierry Legault is a genius when it comes to solar and lunar transits. He's caught just about everything that orbits the Earth crossing the Sun, inc...

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets - the single largest finding of planets to date....

NASA is hosting a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 10 to announce the latest discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The briefing participants are: Paul Hertz, Astrophysi...

The New Shepard last flew on April 2, 2016 and made a spectacular landing at their West Texas launch site. The rocket's 'Vent Cam' captured imagery of the descent.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On Monday, Mercury passed directly between the Earth and the Sun, the last transit it will make until November 2019. Judging from my Twitter and Facebook feeds, it was watched by approximately eleventy bazillion people. ...

European Space Agency Director-General Johann-Dietrich Woerner on May 9 expressed frustration with the equipment delays that forced a two-year slip in the launch of Europe's ExoMars rover vehicle and said he would not wr...

Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit....

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet tries out a spacesuit

"Life could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic. In a sense, the Milky Way galaxy would become infected with pockets of life," said Harvard-Smithsonian CfA astronomer Av...

Aeronautical content and satellite-connectivity provider Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) on May 9 said it would purchase maritime satellite services provider EMC for $550 million in the latest consolidation in the mobil...