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Mars and Venus are visible in the evening while Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury are present in the early morning hours. The constellations of Taurus and Auriga make great targets and the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Jan...

At first glance, a new concept for a NASA habitat on Mars looks like a cross between Mark Watney's inflatable potato farm from "The Martian" and the home of Luke's Uncle Owen on Tatooine from "Star Wars." The key to the ...

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most -- it hosts a megamaser....

In the absence of a guaranteed order for a second geostationary satellite, Brazil's emerging domestic satellite manufacturer Visiona Tecnologia Espacial is building up a remote sensing business and weighing a small satel...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week’s guest is Nancy Atkinson, an editor and writer for Universe Today, and is the author of a book about NASA’s robotic space missions, “Incredible Stories From Spac...

The space policy issued by the Trump campaign prior to the election called for recreating the council, last in place in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. SpaceNews.com

Visitors to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona only need to walk a short way in order to get up close with a large piece of space shuttle history. In fact, they only need to go from the parking lot to the entrance to...

Astrophotographer Mike Killian took this image of Venus and the crescent moon on Dec. 2, 2016 from Toronto.

With a cloud of trailing debris, a rocky object known as 3200 Phaethon straddles the line between asteroid and comet. But the space rock's days, it seems, might be numbered.

Great mysteries still surround the origins and existence of the universe. Physicist Neil Turok, philosopher of physics David Albert, and writer and philosopher Jim Holt discuss with host Steve Paulson the most basic exis...

The "Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, distance from the Earth at true scale," are visualized here for all of 2017 according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, facing an end-of-the-year deadline to obtain a verified launch contract, may not know until some time in January if they will be able to continue in their race to the moon. Sp...

The "Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, distance from the Earth at true scale," are visualized here for all of 2017 according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The OSIRIS-REx launch, Operation IceBridge, Hubble Space Telescope discoveries and more are highlighted in this 'mix tape' from the NASA center.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Evidence for dark matter is visible in this elegant set of simple charts, rooted in data published decades ago --

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have recently discovered non-radial oscillations in a hot, helium-atmosphere white dwarf designated PG 0112+104. The newly detected 11 independent pulsation modes in this white dwarf could be esse...

If, like me, you're counting the seconds until you can kick 2016 out the door, I have a tiny bit of bad news: You'll have to count a little higher to do so. According to our clocks, 2016 will be exactly one second longer...

Mobile astronomy apps can tell you about the upcoming skywatching events for 2017 and help you spot them.

As humans explore other worlds, the colonies they develop may change over time. While the first settlements may rely on individuals, as the outposts grow more self-sustaining, families will likely become the colonists of...

Ryan Gosling will portray Neil Armstrong in Universal Studios' biopic about the Apollo 11 astronaut, "First Man." The actor closed the deal for the new film, to be based on James Hansen's authorized biography, pairing hi...

At first glance, a new concept for a NASA habitat on Mars looks like a cross between Mark Watney's inflatable potato farm from "The Martian" and the home of Luke's Uncle Owen on Tatooine from "Star Wars."