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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has its eyes set on the sunspot that delivered X-Class flares from May 13-15, 2013. Close-Up views reveals x-ray flares interacting with the magnetic loops emitted from the Sunspot. [...]

See the amazing photos that won awards in the 2013 Earth & Sky Photo Contest. [...]

These photos showcased awesome celestial sights against spectacular Earth landscapes. [...]

John Glenn enters the Friendship 7 just before being launched into space for America's first manned Earth orbital mission. [...]

This vivid space wallpaper shows a collection of 100,000 stars displayed in this small region inside the Omega Centauri globular cluster—a dense group of nearly 10 million stars. Omega Centauri is one of the biggest star clusters in the Milky Way. [...]

The X1.2 solar flare was the fourth X-class flare in two days from the sunspot AR1748. [...]

Astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile have exposed light from cold interstellar dust grains that are invisible to the human eye. The bright object is the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), an region of active star formation. [...]

Two incredible new photos reveal hidden pieces of the Orion nebula in stark detail. [...]

The artistic eye of astrophotographer VegaStar Carpentier yields a stunning image of the half moon in blue. [...]

Hadfield became the first-ever Canadian commander of the International Space Station. [...]

Scientists are taking a close look at a Mars-Orbiting Space Telescope concept. See how the idea would use an old spy satellite telescope donated to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office in this SPACE.com infographic. [...]

The Mars Orbiting Space Telescope could help assess the Red Planet's potential to host life, advocates say. [...]

Media representatives are invited to join NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver as she visits the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Thursday, May 16 and tours facilities advancing future spaceflight missions. The locations include Lewis Fi... [...]

NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope. [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2013 Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worry that a gigantic "... [...]

Reston, VA (SPX) May 15, 2013 International Launch Services (ILS) of Reston, VA and EchoStar Satellite Services of Englewood, Colorado, have announced a new launch service award for the ILS Proton launch of a future heavy-lift mission. A satellite... [...]

Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 14, 2013 Researchers from IMDEA-Nanociencia Institute and from Autonoma and Complutense Universities of Madrid (Spain) have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough, published in the journal 'Nature Phys... [...]

Oxford UK (ESA) May 15, 2013 David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, have unveiled the Agency's first UK facility: ECSAT, the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunicat... [...]

Washington (UPI) May 13, 2013 Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory say they've set a record by flying a liquid-hydrogen powered unmanned aerial vehicle for 48 hours straight. The flight breaks the previous record of 26 hours set by t... [...]

Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 15, 2013 Arianespace marked one of the final steps in preparations for the next Ariane 5 launch as Europe's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was integrated atop the heavy-lift workhorse at the Spaceport. This... [...]