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20 June 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Black holes more commonly eat many small meals rather than a single huge feast, a study found.
19 June 2012, 03:36 PM ET
Deep in the heart of the Scorpius constellation lies the chaos of dust, gas and developing stars of the NGC 6357 galaxy. Its light has been captured by the huge mirror of Europe's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the closest look to date.
17 June 2012, 10:00 PM ET
The Shenzhou 9 craft is slated to dock with an unmanned space lab on Monday.
17 June 2012, 09:02 AM ET
See the most amazing space images of the week, including a robot space plane landing and amazing galaxy line-up.
15 June 2012, 05:52 PM ET
Here's the story of the Shenzhou 9 mission patch for China's first crewed space docking flight.
15 June 2012, 04:09 PM ET
Explore the heavens with amateur astronomers under truly dark skies.
15 June 2012, 08:00 AM ET
Six astronauts experience the vomit comet after nearly a year of training at the Johnson Space Center.
15 June 2012, 07:00 AM ET
A sculptor has staged an interpretation of a manned mission to Mars in New York City.
15 June 2012, 01:26 AM ET
See how China's first space station will be assembled in orbit in this SPACE.com infographic.
14 June 2012, 11:23 AM ET
These two galaxies look like their crashing, but your eyes are deceiving you.
13 June 2012, 01:52 PM ET
This cool space wallpaper shows an artist conception of a newly formed star surrounded by a swirling protoplanetary disk of dust and gas, where debris coalesces to create rocky 'planetesimals' that collide and grow to eventually form planets.
12 June 2012, 06:00 AM ET
The NuSTAR telescope will try to shed some light on the dark parts of the universe.
11 June 2012, 12:51 PM ET
The first female Chinese astronaut will launch on the nation's upcoming docking mission.
11 June 2012, 10:07 AM ET
This list of famous astronomers includes great scientists in history who mastered many fields and modern astronomers who helped popularize astronomy.
11 June 2012, 07:01 AM ET
Skywatchers can catch the constellations Bootes the Herdsman and Virgo the Maiden in the spring night sky.
09 June 2012, 01:55 PM ET
China's manned Shenzhou 9 mission to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory will launch in June 2012, officials say.
08 June 2012, 05:01 PM ET
The spacecraft will land in early to mid-June, according to Air Force officials.
08 June 2012, 04:10 PM ET
The project is aimed at promoting science outreach and interest in astronomy.
08 June 2012, 11:32 AM ET
Stars and black holes that might have been the universe's first objects have been spotted by the Spitzer telescope.
08 June 2012, 11:11 AM ET
XCOR Aerospace's Lynx will take off from runways in California and the island of Curacao.
08 June 2012, 06:01 AM ET
Virgin Galactic is aiming for the first passenger launches of its SpaceShipTwo space liner next year.
08 June 2012, 06:01 AM ET
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took the images from orbit around the huge space rock.
07 June 2012, 08:03 PM ET
NASA has released two videos of Bradbury, one from 1971 and one from 2009.
07 June 2012, 02:59 PM ET
A Mars rover driver pays tribute to author and visionary, Ray Bradbury.
07 June 2012, 10:29 AM ET
Cosmology by definition is the branch of astronomy involving the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the future of the cosmos.
