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China will launch a mission to land on the dark side of the moon in two years' time, state media reported, in what will be a first for humanity. The moon's far hemisphere is never directly visible from Earth and...   �...

This day of the year is a funny one; people who write for a living try mightily to tie their particular field to the holidays. For an astronomy and scifi nerd, it's relatively easy, whether it's a Star Wars tree topper o...

How to see a bright, returning comet at dusk not far from Venus. The post See a Christmas-Time Binocular Comet: 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova appeared first on Universe Today.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA sent holiday greetings and festive imagery from the Cupola on Dec. 18....

How well can we predict climate change? The forecast for our future may lie at the intersection of chaos theory and a new breed of supercomputing, Tim Palmer, a physicist with the University of Oxford, explains in his pu...

"This study is an effort to bring together a broad set of ideas and observations to test how well they fit, and the fit is surprisingly good," said Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard. "If this is cor...

Astronauts on the International Space Station take pictures of Earth out their windows nearly every day; over a year that adds up to thousands of photos....

Thomas Pesquet: Egypt and the Sinai desert with the clouds staying in the north...

As we celebrate the Christmas tidings of 2016 here on Earth, a lucky multinational crew of astronauts and cosmonauts celebrate the festive season floating in Zero-G while living and working together in space aboard the E...

China will launch a mission to land on the dark side of the moon in two years' time, state media reported, in what will be a first for humanity. The moon's far hemisphere is never directly visible from Earth and...   �...