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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The sudden and unexpected outage of a crucial tracking radar that is mandatory to insure public safety, has forced the scrub of a pair of launches planned for this week from Cape ...

Veteran actor and former Starship Enterprise captain Sir Patrick Stewart will warp into Fox's 'Cosmos' Sunday night (March 30) as the voice of a famed astronomer who discovered Uranus.

From rings around an asteroid to a shimmering rainbow of colors captured on camera above Venus, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for March 29, 2014.

This summer, astronauts on the International Space Station will test technology that may someday allow humans to remotely control robotic probes on alien worlds.

Hearing of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Space - A Review of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Budget for Fiscal Year 2015 with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as the wi...

Astronauts, rocket-makers and other space leaders are set to descend on Southern California next week for the Space Tech Expo and Conference 2014. Now in its third year, the three-day trade show will take place April 1-3...

Sometimes, you just need a pretty picture. In late September, 2013, the Cassini spacecraft took this lovely picture of Saturn from a distance of 2.3 million kilometers (1.5 million miles). It wasn't quite directly behind...

Little Philae is awake! ESA sent a wake-up call to the 100-kg (220-lb) lander riding aboard the Rosetta spacecraft this morning at 06:00 GMT, bringing it out of its nearly 33-month-long slumber and beginning its preparat...