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The Olympic games are a great display of 'matter in motion' as athletes all over the world display their various talents. These talents are compared to phenomena seen all over the Universe.

A humongous, superhot cloud of gas surrounding our galaxy, the Milky Way, is spinning at a dizzying rate, new research shows. This discovery will help astronomers learn more about the early evolution of the galaxy.

Our solar system began as a cloud of gas and dust. Over time, gravity slowly pulled these bits together into the sun and planets we recognize today. While not every system is friendly to life, astronomers want to piece together how these systems form.

Here's how to catch the brightest planets in August's night sky.

Astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison and other noted women from NASA history may be soon made into official Lego minifigures now that a fan's proposal has qualified for a production review. The Women of NASA set soared to 10,000 votes on Lego Ideas.

Sierra Nevada Corp. said July 28 its Dream Chaser vehicle is ready for a second round of test flights in California as it presses ahead with development of a version to transport cargo to the ISS. - See more at: http://spacenews.com/section/business/#stha

From "Star Trek" to science fiction to real-life space, NASA employees paid tribute to the role of inspiration at the Comic-Con International in San Diego last weekend.

Five "Star Trek" actors gathered at Comic-Con International in San Diego in July to repeat their franchise's eternal message of hope and respect for all peoples as part of a panel celebrating 50 years of the franchise.

"Star Trek" science may be fanciful, but the iconic franchise's creators were prescient in a number of ways.

Unusual X-ray emissions coming from four old red dwarf stars suggest the magnetic fields of these low-mass stars weakened over time, much like the magnetic field of our sun, new research shows.

As Virgin Galactic prepares to resume testing of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, the company announced Aug. 1 that it has received a launch license for those tests from the FAA.

The Soberanes fire, currently burning near Monterey, California, was imaged by a NASA satellite on Sunday afternoon, as the blaze continued to swallow up tens of thousands of acres of land.

The icy surface of Saturn's heavily cratered moon Rhea sparkles in this striking new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Is there life beyond Earth? The SETI Institute and other seekers are looking.

Volcanism on the ancient moon created channels and depressions on the lunar surface. An example of this is the Rima Prinz channel, which is 10X longer and 100X deeper than similar channels on Earth.

The small asteroid that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, was a reminder about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth.