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NASA is pressing ahead with Monday's planned launch of a supply ship despite a critical computer outage at the International Space Station, determining the situation is safe.

Cold and dry today, Mars was previously warm and wet but possibly only at intervals, a study published on Sunday suggests.

NASA on Sunday (April 13) decided to forge ahead with the planned Monday launch of a commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station despite a computer outage in orbit.

As contingency spacewalks go, the urgent task should be easy: a quick 2.5-hour run to swap out a failed backup computer that controls several systems on the International Space Station, including robotics. But NASA doesn...

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NASA will provide a status update on Launch Complex 39A at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 14 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The update, which will be held at pad 39A, will not be carried live on NASA Tele...

A huge night for stargazers is nearly here: On Monday evening (April 14), Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in six years, just ahead of a total eclipse of the moon.

NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft is discovering unexpected "teleconnections" in Earth's atmosphere that link weather and climate across vast distances....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Jenny McCarthy is claiming she is not anti-vaccine. Here's the problem with that claim: Yes, she is. That's patently obvious due to essentially everything she's been saying about vaccines for years. Yet in an OpEd in the...

On the 17th floor of a building here in the heart of midtown Manhattan, more than 100 computer programmers, software engineers and graphic designers have gathered to take part in NASA's third annual International Space A...

From a stunning panorama of the Milky Way to an aurora in the monglight, don't miss these amazing night sky images by stargazers and Space.com readers.

From images of Europe's first earth-watching satellite launched into space to a hard-to-kill star, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for April 12, 2014.