It's your chance to see yourself from space. A new collage called was released by NASA this week. The image commemorates July's "Wave at Saturn" event, when the Cassini spacecraft turned its attention toward Earth and snapped a photo. SPACE.com reports more than 40,000 people took a moment to that day. People around the world that day, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, says the event marked the...

The central peak of Bullialdus rising above the crater floor, with the crater wall in the background. (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) Scientists have discovered evidence of magmatic water on the moon's surface – water that originates deep within the lunar interior – according to a in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience. The discovery marks the first time water that originates from the moon itself, rather than water carried there by solar wind or from meteorites crashing into its surface, has been...

Astronomers have found a twin star to Earth's own sun, only much older. The rare star is the oldest known "solar twin," and offers a peek at what Earth's star will look like in 4 billion years. The star, called HIP 102152, appears to be as similar to the sun in its basic characteristics as any other known star. However, whereas the sun is only 4.6 billion years old, HIP 102152 is 8.2 billion years old, and so represents a...

An artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft firing its maneuvering thrusters in order to maintain a safe altitude as it orbits the moon. (NASA Ames/Dana Berry) NASA's next moon shot — a robotic spacecraft tasked with investigating lunar dust and the moon's thin atmosphere — is set to launch from Virginia this week. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE for short) is scheduled to start its journey to the moon on Friday...

The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass with the mullite and corundum crystal structure shown here. (Mukul Sharma) A meteor or comet impact near Quebec heaved a rain of hot melted rock along North America's Atlantic Coast about 12,900 years ago, a new study claims. Scientists have traced the geochemical signature of the BB-sized spherules that rained down back to their source, the 1.5-billion-year-old Quebecia terrane in northeastern Canada near the...

A key chemical ingredient for life may have been more abundant on early Mars than on early Earth, researchers say. The nutrient in question, phosphate, serves as the backbone of DNA and is also an essential part of the molecules cells use for energy and membranes. Scientists think it was also critical to reactions that led to the . (MORE: ) Mars is rich in phosphate, five to 10 times more so than Earth, based on analysis of meteorites from...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's newest robotic explorer rocketed into space late Friday in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia. The LADEE spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight. It was a change of venue for NASA, which normally launches moon missions from Cape Canaveral, Fla. But it provided a rare light show along the East Coast for those blessed with clear skies. (MORE: ) NASA expected...

This artist's impression shows the Deep Impact spacecraft as it fired an impactor into comet Tempel 1 in 2005. (NASA/Pat Rawlings via Getty Images) NASA's veteran Deep Impact probe may have chased its last comet.The spacecraft's handlers lost contact with — which slammed an impactor probe into Comet Tempel 1 in 2005, made a close flyby of Comet Hartley 2 in 2010 and recently observed ISON, a "comet of the century" candidate — sometime between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14,...

Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is carried to the medical tent shortly after he and, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA landed in their Soyuz capsule. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls) MOSCOW -- Three astronauts, one American and two Russian, came home on a Soyuz capsule early Wednesday morning after166 days on the International Space Station. American Chris Cassidy and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin emerged...

LOS ANGELES — NASA's Voyager 1 probe is drifting, and NASA couldn't be happier. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft has escaped the sun's influence and is now cruising 11 1/2 billion miles away in interstellar space, or the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, NASA said Thursday. And just in case it encounters intelligent life out there, it is carrying a gold-plated, 1970s-era phonograph record with multicultural greetings from Earth, photos and songs, including...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Virginia company makes its debut this week as a space station delivery service, and the lone American aboard the orbiting lab is counting on a fresh stash of chocolate. In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg said she can't wait for this weekend's arrival of a new cargo ship named Cygnus. It will be the first shipment by Orbital Sciences Corp. to the International Space Station. "You know that there's...

The supermoon sets near the Statue of Liberty, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Space enthusiasts looked up to the largest moon of the year over the weekend, enthralled by a "supermoon" that was miles closer to the Earth than usual. To the naked eye, the moon wasn't noticeably larger than normal, but several major cities enjoyed clear nights on Saturday and Sunday, giving millions the opportunity to break out their telescopes turn their eyes toward...