The fable is true! Take that, hares.

We round up the most amazing, mind-blowing, spectacular, and jaw-dropping photos of planets, moons, galaxies, and nebulas from our perennially popular Space Photo of the Day gallery.

Neil Armstrong lied about the famous line he said when stepping onto the surface of the moon. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong placed his boot onto the rocky surface of the moon and said: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

A NASA probe, New Horizons, is currently racing towards an ex-planet, Pluto, to speed past and tell us more about that world and its Kuiper Belt relatives. But ice giants Uranus and Neptune have not been properly studied from space since the Voyager missions of the 1980s.

The country that oversaw the launch of the world's first artificial satellite hopes to regain some of its former glory with a big boost in space spending announced by Russia on Thursday after a series of failures.

Scientists have identified a never-before-seen type of meteorite from Mars that has 10 times more water and far more oxygen in it than any previous Martian sample.

I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a paean to humanity’s inability to learn: This was the view out the International Space Station’s cupola on Jan. 1, 2013, around 09:37 UTC, looking nearly straight down the gullet of Italy’s Mt. Vesuvius.

Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.

Imagine life on a spaceship headed to Mars. You and your five crewmates work, exercise, and eat together every day under the glow of fluorescent lights. As the months pass, the sun gets dimmer and communication with Earth gets slower.

It’s already out there that space entrepreneur Elon Musk has plans to someday colonize Mars, and that those with the means are invited to become a part of his red planet oasis. But there’s a catch we just heard about: Colonists must also be vegetarians.

Unilever is linking its first Super Bowl commercial for Axe with a chance to win a trip to space.

After collecting data from Asteroid Apophis' distant Earth flyby yesterday, NASA confirms that the asteroid will not collide with the Earth in 2036.

If you thought Mars was red, think again. When Curiosity gave the planet a New Year's clean, she removed some of the red dust which covers the surface of the planet—and what lurks beneath is white. Her appropriately named Dust Removal Tool—kind of like a motorized wire...

A newfound "super Earth" orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone.

Ever since the dust cap came off Curiosity's robotic arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), we've been taken on a wonderful hi-res journey of the Red Planet.

Would you volunteer for a one-way trip to Mars, never again to return to the Earth? That is the proposition the non-profit organization Mars One is put

Let's play a little game. Take a look below and see if anything stands out to you in this nighttime satellite picture from NASA.

Imaging being there, damn.

South Korea said it had successfully put a satellite in orbit on Wednesday, giving a lift to its homegrown space industry

This is not a time lapse. This moonrise, recorded just two days ago and presented here in real time, was shot two days ago in Wellington, New Zealand.