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A hibernating spacecraft has been called back into service. The WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer") spacecraft that has been sleeping in a polar orbit around Earth for two years will be turned back on next month ...

Lt. Commander and AsCan (Astronaut Candidate) Victor Glover recited the limerick he wrote for his astronaut application at a press conference for NASA's new team of astronauts.

See photos and images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope, which scans the sky for gamma-ray bursts, the brightest and most powerful explosions in the universe.

Veteran astrophotographer John Chumack has captured spectacular photos of a huge solar filament crawling across the surface of the sun. See how he photographed the sun filament on Aug. 11 and how to safely observe the su...

A NASA spacecraft called Cassini took photos of Earth from its spot in the Saturn system while all of humanity waved at the ringed wonder on July 19. A new NASA collage lets you explore photos of that day by space fans a...

If you've got a new use for the mobile launcher platforms NASA used for the shuttle program, the agency is all ears. NASA invited government and commercial entities to submit their ideas for the platforms, which used to ...

The 'sound' created from a stars brightness can be used to determine it's size. A paper published in Nature shows how variations in these sounds are caused by the different ways in which hot gas wells up to the surface a...

On July 19, millions of Earthlings worldwide participated in NASA's 'Wave at Saturn' campaign as the NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter turned about and imaged all of us. Earthlings from 40 countries and 30 U.S. states heeded N...

Just in case you haven't seen this bit of awesome yet: Noctilucent clouds and aurora showed up together in skies over Scotland on the night of August 4/5, 2013. Maciej Winiarczyk from the Caithness Astronomy Group was on...

The way a star flickers can shed light on the strength of gravity's pull on its surface, researchers say. And discovering more about a star's pull can yield key insights on its evolutionary state and on any planets that ...

This space wallpaper is a color-coded topography map from NASA's Dawn mission, which shows the giant asteroid Vesta.

Last night's Blue Moon captivated stargazers around the world. Although yesterday's full moon didn't look visibly different from other full moons during the year, stargazers used the specially named moon as an excuse to ...

Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand how the mysterious electric bursts form. Dancing on the tops of thunderstorms, sprites last less than a second.

The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle simulates a lunar landing from a near maximum altitude over Edwards Air Force Base.

Routines. They tell you when to get up in the morning, what to do at your day job and how to handle myriad tasks ranging from house cleaning to using a computer. Memorizing these procedures makes it a lot easier to handl...

A dazzling star explosion discovered in the night sky last week is the brightest nova seen from Earth in at least five years and it's visible now to the naked eye.The Nova Delphinus 2013 star explosion can be seen in dar...

Warp drive technology, a form of 'faster than light' travel popularized by TV's 'Star Trek,' could be bolstered by the physics of quantum thrusters -- another science fiction idea made plausible by modern science.

Astronomers have found an Earth-size planet so close to its star that a year on that exoplanet lasts just 8.5 hours.

Veteran night sky photographer Tamas Ladanyi of The World at Night captures this stunning photo of a meteor cruising across the Milky Way as seen from the Canary Islands.

On July 16, Expedition 36 astronauts Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano had to cut a planned 7-hour spacewalk short after only an hour and a half due to a malfunction in Parmitano's space suit, leaking water into his helme...

The "8 Balls" have landed in NASA's center pocket. Eight new astronaut candidates -- nicknamed the "8 Balls" -- were welcomed to Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will begin two years of basic training.

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is set to launch to the moon in September 2013. Here is everything you need to know about it.