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People have been describing and documenting eclipses for thousands of years.

A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way - are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.

Wherever you find people, you also find bacteria and other microorganisms. The International Space Station is no exception....

(Royal Astronomical Society) Astronomers Dr. Jane Greaves, of the University of Cardiff, and Dr. Wayne Holland, of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh, may have found an answer to the 25-year-old mystery of h...

(University of Texas at Austin) The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that most waves on Titan'...

The Juno spacecraft is preparing to fly close over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, with a little help from the probe's ground-based friends.

NASA expects to make a decision within the next two months whether to keep the Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the largest body in the main asteroid belt or have it fly past another asteroid. SpaceNews.com

A team of MIT graduate students was recently honored by NASA's RASC-AL competition for their MARINA space habitat design The post I Wonder if it has Room Service? Here’s the Space Hotel that Won a Recent NASA Competiti...

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that most waves on Titan's lakes reach only about 1 centi...

If there's one specific area to improve in military satcom right now, it should be increasing protection for existing and future systems, several experts said June 30. While the military does have some protected systems,...

The Mexican government will decide this year whether to replace the Centenario satellite it lost to a 2015 Proton rocket failure with a new satellite or replacement capacity on another operator's satellite, according to ...

Stephen Hawking recently described a runaway climate scenario in which Earth turns into a hothouse planet like Venus, but most climate experts say it is a gross exaggeration.

Country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood visited NASA's mission control and sang to the astronauts on the space station.

This image shows partially exposed bedrock within the Koval'sky impact basin, which is on the outskirts of the extensive lava field of Daedalia Planum....

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a magnificent face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. The image does justice to the galaxy's beauty, showcasing its glittering arms criss-crossed with dust lanes...

Find out what's up in your night sky during June 2017 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

A serendipitous detection of the organic molecule methanol around an intriguing moon of Saturn suggests that material spewed from Enceladus undertakes a complex chemical journey once vented into space. This is the first ...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft doesn't zoom past its next science target until New Year's Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surp...

SpaceX (SpX)-11 Departure/Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations - On Monday, Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to position Dragon for release....

(Phys.org)--A team of astronomers led by Yogesh Maan of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) has discovered radio emission from the gamma-ray pulsar known as J1732'3131. The study, presented in a paper ...

A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter --

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has developed a model meant to show what the early moon may have looked like. As they note in their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint ser...