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Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday.

She was a vibrant role model for women in astronomy, butwas not defined by,nor will she be remembered for,her gender, but by her remarkable contributions as a scientist. --

Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who discovered dark matter, has died. She was 88. Her work in astronomy ushered in a revolution in how we saw the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, but it has mass, and affects the c...

China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

As NASA's Mars rover Curiosity makes its way up the central peak of Gale Crater, it has been gathering evidence from ancient lake beds and long ago groundwater environments that are promising for life.

I love unusual meteorological phenomena. Iridescence, lenticular clouds, Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, and on and on. I've been fortunate enough to see a lot of these weird things for myself, but then my luck is leveraged heav...

Team Hakuto, a Japanese group competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, announced Dec. 20 it has a verified contract to fly its rover on another team's lander in 2017 after its initial partner dropped out of the competitio...

While the Quadrantids are a little-known shower, 2017 will be a great year to catch them during their Jan. 2-3 overnight peak. The nearly new moon's dim light will provide favorable viewing conditions for the meteor show...

Astronomers have found evidence suggesting two infant planets are forming around a distant young star in our galaxy. This newly forming planetary system is located 400 light-years from Earth.

"To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and build China into a space power is a dream we pursue unremittingly," read a white paper setting out the country's space strategy for the next five years. It says...

The Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA's Johnson Space Center sifted through thousands of photos to deliver their top 16 of 2016. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured all of the breathtak...

The next-generation capsule is currently under construction for a mission "beyond the moon" in 2018 according to NASA. This highlight reel takes a look at what was accomplished in 2016.

For many scientists, the most exciting result of the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves is that astronomy can now enable them to probe the "dark" universe: objects and forces that don't absorb, reflect, or emit light,...

NASA's giant laser in the sky is helping us better understand our planet's oceans. The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a NASA instrument housed aboard the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pat...

A newly proposed technique could make it possible to search for life on alien planets, like Proxima b, much sooner than scientists had expected.

While it's always difficult to choose just one best landing site on Mars, NASA says it has made progress to pick a location for the Mars 2020 rover.

Astronomers have strong evidence that suggests the nearby star likely formed with Alpha Centauri, a possibility that could have serious implications for the habitability of Proxima b, the star's famous Earth-sized exopla...

Warning: this trailer contains graphic imagery. The latest installment in the series hits theaters in May 2017.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows no signs of damage after an "anomaly" during a vibration test earlier in the month, the agency announced Dec. 23.