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The collaborative project “It from Qubit” is investigating whether space and time sprang from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information --

Göran Strand is an amazing astrophotographer whose work I've highlighted here many times. He has an astonishing skill in making beautiful photographs out of rare and bizarre phenomena. And here he is once again: That ph...

Early Tuesday morning (Dec. 27) we all have an opportunity to get our first look at the ringed wonder of the solar system, Saturn, in the early morning sky, weather permitting.

2016 has been a bountiful year for space science. Before the calendar runs out, here's our list of the biggest space stories and events of the past 12 months.

Searching for signs of life on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could spoil the hunt before it begins -- which is why many scientists advocate going underground.

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," according to Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are carbon-based life, and understand...

NASA Scientist Tiffany Kataria drops in on Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen for a fun, not so serious chat about science fiction, other worlds and time travel?...

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," according to Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are carbon-based life, and understand...

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," according to Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are carbon-based life, and understand...

The dwarf planet Ceres still holds pockets of ice from billions of years ago, new observations by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show.

From the rocket landings of SpaceX and Blue Origin, to the launch of Mars and asteroid missions, to a NASA probe's arrival at Juno, here are the most important spaceflight stories of the year.

After decades of fruitless scanning the skies for alien messages, scientists say it's time to try a basic rule of etiquette: Say "hello" first.