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Virgin Galactic released video from SpaceShipTwo’s flight test last Friday, January 10, 2014. This was the third supersonic, rocket-powered test of the Virgin Galactic system after dozens of successful subsonic test fl...

Hey, remember Comet C/2012 S1 ISON? Who can forget the roller-coaster ride that the touted "Comet of the Century" took us on last year. Well, ISON could have one more trick up its cosmic sleeve -although it's a big maybe...

Tom Kennedy will succeed Raytheon Co.'s longtime chief executive, William Swanson.

According to news reports from China, the Yutu rover woke up from its two-week nap at 5:09 Beijing time on January 11 (21:09 on January 10, UTC), successfully establishing communication with Earth. The lander woke up aut...

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016....

In the desert here, the nearly full moon was so bright that we didn't even need a flashlight to walk to the Mars Desert Research Station Musk Observatory. The stars were still, as the dry air did not provide much humidit...

Within days of our two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station, crew members already encountered minor medical problems - a sore back and a cold or flu among them.

This space wallpaper is a Hubble image showing the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy.

Multicolored cosmic lights dance over mountains, bridges and lakes in an amazing new video that highlights the beauty of the northern lights as seen from Norway.

American Astronomical Society: The K2 mission is a concept being proposed to NASA through the 2014 Senior Review process that seeks to repurpose the NASA Kepler spacecraft. K2 will expand on Kepler's groundbreaking disco...

Today: Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Low Temperature Loop (LTL) Pump Status: Today, the Remote Power Controller (RPC) associated with the JEM LTL Pump tripped open as a result of a spike in current coming from the pum...

Michael Freilich, the scientist who directs the Earth Science Division, explains the importance of the Earth-monitoring satellites --

Supermoon was a term invented by astrologer Richard Nolle many years earlier to refer to the coincidence between two astronomical events: a full moon and lunar perigee, when the moon is at its closest point to Earth.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produces dozens of videos to explain and illuminate discoveries and ongoing research. Here are some of SPACE.com's favorites.

So far, just a handful of planets have been found orbiting stars in star clusters - and actually, astronomers weren't too surprised about that. Star clusters can be pretty harsh places with hordes of stars huddling close...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Vigorous mixing in the air above large cracks in Arctic sea ice that expose seawater to cold polar air pumps atmospheric mercury down to the surface, finds a NASA field...

The MWC 656 system consists of a massive "Be" star and a companion black hole. The star rotates at very high speed, ejecting an equatorial disc of matter that is transferred to the black hole through an accretion disc.

NASA Breaking News: NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission and The Planetary Society invite people worldwide to fly their names on a round-trip ride to the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission, the asteroid Bennu.

CosmoAcademy -- a project from the CosmoQuest educational and citizen-science group -- is offering three new online classes: Introduction to Dark Matter, Introduction to Astronomy via Color Imaging, and Life Beyond Earth...

Astronomers have found a quiescent black hole orbiting a massive, fast-rotating 'B-emission' star, suggesting that these strange binary systems may be common throughout the Milky Way galaxy.

The team from Slooh will broadcast a live Solar special focusing on the sudden emergence of hyperactivity on the Sun — lately attributed sunspot AR 1944. Right now, the Sun is in what is supposed to be the active phase...