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Yes, despite what some people were clearly meant to believe, jobs are about the only thing being sacrificed at CERN recently. After a strange video depicting what was meant to look like a human sacrifice on its Geneva ca...

This year's melt season in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas started with a bang, with a record low maximum extent in March and relatively rapid ice loss through May....

Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins concluded their spacewalk at 2:02 EDT. During the five-hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully installed the first of two i...

Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth's surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the Sun, revealing its mysterious outer atmosphere, the coro...

Astronomers have identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the Universe are formed. This young star, already more than 30 times the mass...

Chris McKay, an astrobiologist with NASA says: "I've been interested in the search for life in the Solar System for decades and I'm still flabbergasted by what we're seeing on Enceladus. It's such a small world so far fr...

More than a century ago, explorers dreamed of a Northwest Passage, a route from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic by plying the waterways north of Canada, threading through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, huge icy islan...

On Saint Patrick's Day 2015, astrophotographer Shawn Malone set out once again to capture the Northern Lights over Marquette, Michigan. But this time, instead of seeing the usual green aurora, she stumbled upon something...

SpaceX founder, CEO, and Lead Designer Elon Musk is unveiling his humans to Mars plan at next month's 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Eroded mesas and buttes reminiscent of the U.S. Southwest shape part of the horizon in the latest 360-degree color panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover....

Astronomers have identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the Universe are formed. This young star, already more than 30 times the mass...

For years, exoplanet hunters have been busy searching for planets that are similar to Earth. And when earlier this month, an unnamed source indicated that the European Southern Observatory (ESO) had done just that - i.e....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers have identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the Universe are formed. This young star, already more than 30 times the mass...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureaux at the Links Through Space blog.

As speculation about a possible Earth-like exoplanet around our sun's nearest neighbor reaches fever pitch, the European Southern Observatory says there will be an announcement on Wednesday.

PORT CANAVERAL, FL -- Rocket recycling continues apace as the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to successfully launch a payload to orbit on Aug. 14 and land the first stage at sea minutes later, sailed safely into Port Cana...

On Sept. 1, two NASA astronauts will spacewalk outside the International Space Station for the second time in less than two weeks.

On August 19, 2016, NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins successfully added the adaptor to the forward end of the Harmony module. It will allow commercial crew vehicles to directly dock to the International Spac...

Conjunctions of bright planets make for jewelry in the sky. This week, get ready for some celestial shimmer. If you've been following the hither and thither of Mars and Saturn near Antares this summer, you know these pla...

Fans of astronomy are no doubt familiar with the work of Kevin Gill. In the past, he has brought us visualizations of what the Earth would look like if it had a system of rings, what a "Living Mars" would look like - i.e...