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The telescope at China's Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing has captured images of an asteroid approaching Earth. The asteroid, coded as 2009ES by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), was observed Wednesday night. This is ...

Squeezing out unique scientific observations until the very end, Rosetta's thrilling mission will culminate with a descent on 30 September towards a region of active pits on the comet's 'head'.

Canadian Space Agency:

"Hitler's acid" is a colloquial name used to refer to Orthocarbonic acid - a name which was inspired from the fact that the molecule's appearance resembles a swastika. As chemical compounds go, it is quite exotic, and ch...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

SpaceX appealed for help from the public and US government agencies on Friday in the investigation of what made a Falcon 9 rocket explode last week during a launch test.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

After four years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has made some pretty impressive discoveries. These have ranged from characterizing what Mars' atmosphere was like billions of years ago to discovering organic molecules and m...

OSIRIS-REx is set to scrape dirt and gravel from a space rock and return to Earth in 2023 --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Yesterday, NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu, where it will take a sample of the asteroid and return the material to Earth. Here, we'll focus on how to see an asteroid in a backyard telescope, with t...

A Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo spaceliner took to the air under the wing of its massive mothership Thursday (Sept. 8), marking the first flight test for the private space travel company since a tragic accident in 2014.

The asteroid Bennu won't collide with Earth anytime soon, but it may help scientists keep other rocks from threatening the planet.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is "boldly going where no one has gone before" with out of this world imagery of the cosmos. In honor of the 50th anniversary of 'Star Trek,' imagery of nebulae IRAS 19340+2016 and IRAS 193...

We tend to look to the stars in our search for extraterrestrial life, but there are examples of alien life living under our oceans. Exploration of the deep sea continues to challenge our perceptions of life and how life ...

Following the Sept. 8 launch of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, representatives from NASA ...

Although it may appear as a watercolour painting, this image is a natural-colour capture of a plankton bloom in the Barents Sea by the Sentinel-2A satellite....

As one crew gets used to Earth's gravity after 172 days in space, another crew is preparing to launch to the International Space Station in just over two weeks....

Our week through the lens: 5-9 September 2016

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA Cassini spacecraft's radar 'peeled back' the haze the envelops the moon to reveal a dark area named 'Shangri-la' that includes sand dunes. The probe has "shown that dunes of this sort encircle most of Titan's equato...

My friend (and former boss) Hank Green has done something amazing: He and his team (Nicole Sweeney, Nick Jenkins, Taylor Behnke Peters, and Derek Knabenbauer; Nicole and Nick worked on my Crash Course Astronomy series) h...