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ESA Top News: Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies ...

Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies this ambitious...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, and proceeded to study the giant planet for almost 8 years. It sent back a tremendous amount of scientific information that revolutionized our understandi...

MIT researchers propose an experiment using distant quasars that may close the last major loophole of Bell's inequality -- a 50-year-old theorem that, if violated by experiments, would mean that our universe is based not...

I have a pet peeve: the words dune and ripple are often used interchangeably, although they are quite distinct from one another. So what's the difference between aeolian dunes and ripples? And why should anybody care?

A deep freeze has settled in over the Great Lakes this winter and a new image released by NASA shows the astonishing extent of the ice cover as seen from space.

A training exercise designed to showcase the government's ability to recover a space capsule at sea was scrubbed after NASA ran into trouble off the Southern California coast, the space agency said Friday.

Both nations' concerns about sharing strategic communications capacity means a fully bilateral satellite system is out of the question.

Both nations' concerns about sharing strategic communications capacity means a fully bilateral satellite system is out of the question.

How did 'COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY' come to premiere on a network some think is not friendly to science literacy? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan & Mitch Cannold share perspectives on science and censorship with Space....

Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy....

When Dale Gardner smiled for this preflight picture somewhere around 1983, there was another mission on his horizon: picking up a broken satellite … using a jet backpack. And while we believe that all astronauts have a...

Comet ISON — that bright comet last year that broke up around Thanksgiving weekend — included two forms of nitrogen in its icy body, according to newly released observations from the Subaru Telescope. Of the two type...

The two commercial cameras that will keep a constant watch over Earth from outside the International Space Station have beamed their first test image data back home.

Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit....

NASA Breaking News: Teachers and students can learn the science behind scoring a touchdown, throwing a slam-dunk or a hitting a homerun with a new distance-learning program called NASA STEM Mania.

The U.S. Air Force is expected to launch two high-orbiting satellites for a previously classified space surveillance system late in 2014.

The U.S. Air Force is expected to launch two high-orbiting satellites for a previously classified space surveillance system late in 2014.

On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013....

Journalist, producer and television host Soledad O'Brien will host the National Geographic Channel's global television event 'Live from Space,' the channel announced Wednesday (Feb. 19).

Moscow has asked the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and Russian manufacturer RSC Energia, which holds 95 percent of Swiss-registered Sea Launch, to submit an overview of the financial situation of the maritime launch s...

Scientists from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter say that Icarus Crater is one of a kind on the Moon because its central peak rises higher than about half its rim. Most central peaks rise only about halfway to the crater...