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On Feb. 10, 2017, Slooh.com captured imagery of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakov. It will make a close approach on Feb. 11, passing just 7.4 million miles (12 million km) from Earth.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has gone vertical at NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) for the first time.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ever to grace historic launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida was erected this afternoon, Friday, Feb. 10, to prepare the booster for a critic...

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"First, perhaps, it might be best to understand why anyone would want to land on Europa at all. Europa - the second of Jupiter's four large satellites - is clearly a special place," says Caltech's Mike Brown, the Richard...

"First, perhaps, it might be best to understand why anyone would want to land on Europa at all. Europa - the second of Jupiter's four large satellites - is clearly a special place," says Caltech's Mike Brown, the Richard...

In 2013, Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, observed that consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. All animals, fr...

On Feb. 10-11, 2017, the Full Snow Moon passed through Earth's shadow in a penumbrual lunar eclipse while the Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková made its closest approach. See photos of the awesome event here.

A penumbral lunar eclipse and a bright green comet gave skywatchers across the globe a double treat Friday night (Feb. 10) and early into Saturday morning.

Thomas Pesquet: One of the beautiful Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean....

If technologically-advanced alien civilizations are indeed out there, would they be friendly explorers, or destroyers of worlds? According to prominent astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz, who works on NASA's Kepler missio...

If technologically-advanced alien civilizations are indeed out there, would they be friendly explorers, or destroyers of worlds? According to prominent astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz, who works on NASA's Kepler missio...