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This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows "Victoria crater," an impact crater at Meridiani Planum, near the equator of Mars.
The online Slooh Space Camera will help viewers keep tabs on the heavens all week.
The online Slooh Space Camera will help viewers keep tabs on the heavens all week.
The ratio of the mass of a proton to the mass of an electron hasn't changed.
The relativistic jets created by ancient supermassive black holes and tiny baby ones are more similar than previously realized.
A galaxy that may be farther than any previously seen is shedding light on the earliest years of the universe.
Scientists have solved a befuddling mystery about the X-ray light coming from the sun.
The object, called a microquasar, is the first discovered beyond the Milky Way.
Scientists at the NIH field questions from students on "Cell Day."
The new KMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope uses robotic arms to observe distinct targets.
Amazing image of Jupiter taken in infrared light on the night of Aug. 17, 2008 with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) prototype instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Scientists will report on a population of primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago.
The Grail spacecraft will go out in style Dec. 17.
Astronomers are looking to crowdsource the identification of star clusters in M31, a galaxy in the Milky Way's backyard.
Sir Patrick Moore, host of TV's long-running "The Sky At Night," passed away.
A European spacecraft orbiting Mars has snapped wintry-looking pictures of a mountain range on the Red Planet's southern highlands.
The Carina Nebula is forming stars at a furious rate.
The findings should shed light on the evolution of the moon and the solar system's rocky planets.