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The Leonid meteor shower peaks before dawn tomorrow (Nov. 17), and will appear to radiate from the constellation Leo.

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Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer.

US Military

A new U.S. telescope will hunt for space junk in the skies above Australia under a new defense agreement.

China's mystery space plane project, the Shenlong, is stirring up questions among analysts.

The robotic Shenlong space plane prototype is seen here tucked beneath a Chinese H-6 bomber.

NASA and the Air Force are building a satellite called DebriSat so they can purposely obliterate it and watch what happens.
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 Supernova remnant SNR1987A

this Hubble view of Supernova remnant SNR1987A are two glowing loops and a very bright ring of shocked hotspots surrounding the location of the now-exploded central star.

Mariner 10, the first spacecraft to visit Mercury, captured this photo of the southwest region. Learn all about Mariner 10 here:

The LEGO space shuttle and this Star Trek original series Mirror Mirror ISS Enterprise model are among the top 10 Space Models available from the SPACE.com Gift Guide.

Learn about Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft that was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus.

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