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Astronaut Mike Hopkins is using the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device aboard the International Space Station to perform 100 Pull Ups, Push Ups, Sit Ups and Air Squats.

This weekend, the moon's fortnightly rotation cycle turns China's lunar rover Yutu (the Jade Rabbit) and its solar panels toward the sun once again ... but whether the rover wakes up or not remains to be seen.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped its first photo of Earth from the surface of the Red Planet, an amazing image that also includes the moon. See the photos here.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky.

The Mars Science Laboratory captured imagery of the brightest object in its twilight sky, Earth and its orbiting Moon. The rover's Mast Camera imaged them on January 31st, 2014, its 529th day on the Red Planet.

On Tuesday at precisely 12:55 p.m. EST (17:55 UTC), Mars rover Curiosity successfully breached the crest of the dune in "Dingo Gap." The 1 meter-high dune stands between the rover and a smoother route to the mission's ne...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: From seaside arenas to snowy ski runs, NASA satellite images capture the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games sites.

(Phys.org) --Europe's billion-star surveyor Gaia is slowly being brought into focus.

(Phys.org) --Just weeks after NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory began operations in 1999, the telescope pointed at Centaurus A (Cen A, for short). This galaxy, at a distance of about 12 million light-years from Earth, con...

TV-viewers around the world will be treated to an unprecedented live tour of the $100 billion International Space Station next month when the National Geographic Channel airs a two-hour special from the astronauts' orbit...

"Dynamic Earth," a video created by staffers at NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and their colleagues, took first prize in the 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

"Dynamic Earth" is the video winner of the 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science.

Vice President Bush stands inside Spacelab with two astronauts.

As NASA’s missions at the Red Planet age, it’s so important not to take any of the pictures beamed back to Earth for granted. The latest release of raw images from the University of Arizona’s High Resolution Imagin...

The RAS holds regular monthly scientific meetings from October to May each year, usually on the second Friday of the month. Typically a pair of Specialist Discussion meetings for Fellows are followed by a more general As...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Researchers from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., with the support of NASA balloon scientists, are having a "BARREL" of fun in Antarctica. BARREL is a unique mission that hopes to u...

Ever since the first torch relay for the 1936 summer Olympic games in Berlin, Olympic torches have traditionally been used to carry a burning flame — symbolically and physically — from Greece to the host country’s ...

MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 images says Robert Gold, MESSENGER's Science Payload Manager. "...

From a lonely outpost in space, the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope is getting ready to map out the Milky Way. It will take some time to calibrate the instruments to make sure they’re ready for work, however, ...

What with all the posting about global warming and creationism, maybe now is a good time to sit back, relax, take a deep breath, and remember the Universe is still out there, ticking along: I don't know how I missed this...

The contract with Antrix calls for the Teleos-1 satellite to be launched into a near-equatorial orbit with an altitude of 550 kilometers.

The French government committed another 30 million euros to cost-shared work with French satellite builders on next-generation broadband satellites.