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Fox's "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" launched with a solid 8.5 million viewers from 10 networks Sunday night.

We live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way - a vast conglomeration of 300 billion stars, planets whizzing around them, and clouds of gas and dust floating in between.

O3b Networks said it is going live with its first customer, Telecom Cook Islands, and has completed testing with luxury-cruise operator Royal Caribbean.

NASA's Orion, Space Launch System and Ground Systems Development and Operations program are making steady progress toward sending humans farther than they've ever been before....

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano joins the show to share his view of Earth from space while on the International Space Statio...

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have begun to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope in advance of its 2018 debut.

The IAU, the authority that assigns "official" names for all celestial bodies and surface features, will not legitimize any purchased names for cosmic objects and their features, including Martian craters, IAU officials ...

See photos from SpaceX's third Dragon space capsule mission to delivery supplies to the International Space Station for NASA. The mission launches March 16, 2014 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter switched over to safe mode after unexpectedly swapping from one main computer to another. The glitch has suspended science operations, but mission officials are confident the probe can ...

Space lovers around the world are getting ready to revel in the excitement of human spaceflight on Yuri's Night, April 12. This year, the celebration's organizers will hold a "catalyst" competition, promising prizes for ...

A rainbow-like feature known as a 'glory' has been seen by ESA's Venus Express orbiter in the atmosphere of our nearest neighbour - the first time one has been fully imaged on another planet....

Oh glory! A rainbow-like optical phenomenon known as a 'glory' has been imaged for the first time on another planet. It was seen in the atmosphere of our nearest neighbor, Venus by ESA's Venus Express orbiter. (...)Read ...

A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this stunning space wallpaper taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 10, 2013. Rhea (949 miles, or 1,527 kilometers across) is Satur...

Saturn's second largest moon, Titan, is known for its dense, planet-like atmosphere and large lakes most likely made of methane and ethane. It has been suggested that Titan's atmosphere and surface is a model of early Ea...

An exhaustive search by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has found no hints of a theorized planet or dwarf star in our neck of the cosmic woods. Clara Moskowitz reports.     --

NASA’s preliminary (read: not finalized) budget for 2015 would eliminate funding for the long-running Opportunity rover mission that’s discovered extensive evidence of past water on Mars in the past decade. While the...

China said it had "immediately redeployed" 10 satellites to help in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared early Saturday with 239 people, mostly Chinese, on board.

Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, answers an age-old question. --

The launch of Fox's "Cosmos" TV series reboot on 10 different networks Sunday (March 9) attracted in 8.5 million viewers according to a Neilsen ratings summary, the Los Angeles Times reports today.

In its 2015 budget request, NASA is proposing to end Opportunity, drop an ISS resupply flight, scale back several space technology projects and likely delay ICESat-2.

It’s not often that one associates a satellite with French folk songs, but this infographic does that and more. Below you will find the major launches of the early space age — from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik to the...

We live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way -- a vast conglomeration of 300 billion stars, planets whizzing around them, and clouds of gas and dust floating in between.