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Audio from conversations between Jet Propulsion Laboratory team members and John Glenn, President Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson have be unearthed. The conversations were about America's first communications satellite...

How many planets can fit into the habitable zone around a star? A group of scientists saw this question posed by a non-scientist on Reddit and decided to answer it.

Witches, ghosts and ghouls don't just haunt the Earth on Halloween night -- such spooky figures exist throughout the universe, too. Here are some of the most spine-chilling space photos to scare your pants off this Hallo...

NASA Breaking News:

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough assumed command of the International Space Station from Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency at 3:37 p.m. EDT Friday in a traditional Change of Command ceremony.....

The nonprofit organization that wants to build a giant telescope atop a Hawaii mountain has selected an alternate site in case it can't be built on land many Native Hawaiians consider sacred.

New theoretical modeling of the ancient history of the Earth suggests that the giant collision that spawned our Moon may have left Earth spinning very fast, and with its spin axis highly tilted. "Despite smart people wor...

As All Hallow's Eve approaches, take a look at what's brewing in the cosmic night --

The world's largest radio telescope, in southwestern China, is joining an international search for extraterrestrial intelligence focused on a mysterious, flickering star that has sparked unprecedented curiosity in recent...

A team of researchers have presented a new model for the origin of Saturn's rings based on results of computer simulations. The results of the simulations are also applicable to rings of other giant planets and explain t...

The mysterious tilt of the moon's orbit might come from an angled, giant impact that vaporized most of the early Earth, creating the moon in the process, a new study finds.

Earth's Moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there's a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current "giant impact" theory. The work is published Oct. 31 in the jou...

The former Canadian Space Agency astronaut reads his children's book "Darkest Dark" to the Amazon Prime series' 'world famous rock puppy, Bookaboo."

DSCOVR’s computer may be suffering from radiation-induced glitches, months after it became the primary sentinel for incoming solar storms --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Two theories explain the formation of Earth and other planets.

Between the flying spaceships, game of Pac-Man, dry ice, and blinking lights, NASA's pumpkin carvings are a bit more elaborate than what you typically see around Halloween. SpaceNews.com

Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Their conclusions were based on analysis of Type...

"Life on the sea floor had totally collapsed, with up 90% of all species becoming extinct," says Dr Michal Zaton from the University of Silesia in Poland, and lead author on the international study of the Permian Period ...

NASA called for photos of kids' space-themed Halloween costumes on Twitter. Here are some of the best costumes.

Fifty years ago, two astronauts conceived a Halloween "treat": a mission patch depicting their flight to space, not atop a rocket, but on broomsticks. The proposed Gemini 12 patch might have been, were it not for a "tric...

Oooo, what a pretty galaxy! That's NGC 4151, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Canes Venatici. This image was taken by my friend Adam Block using the 81 cm Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in Arizon...