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Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a Moon-filled weekend? Then let's have a look a some great lunar features as we race Mad Max to the "Megadome"! For some lucky viewers in Japan and Hawaii, there will be an occultation of A...

Software that can tell our emotional state is on the way, but will we like machines that can sense how we feel?

Astronomers have unveiled a new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way - that's our home galaxy, if you're from someplace else - and it's peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust, the potential birthplaces of ...

Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher in the current issue of " Science " magazine...

Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive black hole at its core.

Two independent studies show that the pandemic H1N1 flu virus binds deeper into the lungs than ordinary flu, which could explain why it is sometimes fatal

Rice that has been genetically modified to produce pollen proteins and then release them in the gut during digestion is ready for human trials, say its creators

New image of a gaseous space nebula reveals tens of thousands of giant comet-like knots raining down.

NASA shifted the orbit of its Mars satellite Odyssey to make better use of its infrared camera for mapping the surface.