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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'.

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images a...

NASA's next-generation crew-carrying spacecraft remains on track to make a historic journey around the moon in 2018, agency officials say.

We live on a giant spinning ball of rock and metal. That is such a counterintuitive statement! Standing on its surface, the Earth looks flat, but that's an illusion borne of the Earth's huge size compared to us. The sphe...

"The vast majority of space technology being developed is dual-use, and so serves Chinese security interests as well," says Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program and a professor at the US Naval War Colle...

In this program, Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews noted futurist and inventor, Ray Kurzweil, as part of the 92nd Street Y "7 Days of Genius" series. Kurzweil is the man Wall Street Journal called a "restless genius" and Go...

On July 3, 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood amidst the crowd in Big Meadows and officially dedicated Shenandoah National Park in Virginia....

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images a...

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A science fiction novel published in 2013 pegged some of the most salient details for our nearest neighboring exoplanet --