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Cassini took this rare photo of the Earth and moon on April 12 just before the start of its daring Grand Finale mission this weekend. The post Earth Beams From Between Saturn’s Rings in New Cassini Image appeared first...

A new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows planet Earth as a point of light between the icy rings of Saturn....

As the amount of debris in low Earth orbit continues to increase, experts at a recent conference called for both improved efforts to track debris as well as national legislation to mitigate that growth. SpaceNews.com

A new observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures the landing platform that the rover Opportunity left behind in Eagle Crater more than 13 years and 27 miles (or 44 kilometers) ago.

Further evidence of the existence of dark matter - the mysterious substance that is believed to hold the Universe together - has been produced by Cosmologists at Durham University.

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President Donald Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will make a special 20-minute, Earth-to-space call at 10 a.m. EDT Monday, April 24, to personally congratulate NASA astronaut Peggy Whit...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft faces one last perilous adventure around Saturn.

We assume that habitable exoplanets will have significant land masses, because that's what we have on Earth. Are we wrong? The post Are Drylanders The Minority On Habitable Worlds? appeared first on Universe Today.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist, award-winning science communicator (“Dr. FunkySpoon”), and prize-winning author. He has a new book EARTH IN HUMAN HANDS. He is a Senior ...

Whoever named the sea cucumber after a vegetable didn't give it enough credit. Yes, sea cucumbers are soft, warty tubes that scoot eyelessly along the seafloor. But they aren't helpless. Some secrete a poison that's dead...

The story of the historic probe's epic journey is told in the new documentary. Premieres Wed. August 23, 2017 on PBS.

President Trump signed into law this week a weather bill that includes provisions formally authorizing ongoing commercial satellite weather data projects and a study of future weather satellite needs.

Chat with "Albert Einstein" using a Facebook Messenger chatbot, released just in time for the March for Science.

Science superhero Bill Nye plans to save the world by cultivating a superpower that exists in everyone: critical thinking.

On April 22, people in hundreds of cities around the world will take part in the March for Science.

Ahead of Earth Day, this special edition of Space takes us to Rome to explore the defining characteristics of our planet

Brown hills speckle the eastern part of Australia's Lake MacKay in this satellite image....

Observations of nearly 700 stars by the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia revealed no compelling signs of alien civilizations, representatives of the Breakthrough Listen project announced Thursday (April 20).

This entrancing image shows a few of the tenuous threads that comprise Sh2-308, a faint and wispy shell of gas located 5,200 light-years away in the constellation of Canis Major (The Great Dog).

The Hubble Space Telescope, which launched into low Earth orbit on April 24, 1990, kicked off this year's birthday celebration with some dazzling new views of a pair of spiral galaxies.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: