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A senior Russian official said he would ban exports of Russian-made rocket engines used to launch U.S. military satellites, and added that Russia doesn't intend to continue cooperating with the U.S. on the International ...

An international team led by Université de Montréal researchers has discovered and photographed a new planet 155 light-years from our solar system....

Planetary geologists are set to narrow down a list of landing sites for a mission set for 2020 --

A new book set for release just after the movie "Interstellar" premieres in November promises to take fans of the film behind the scenes, delving into the details of one of the most anticipated movies of 2014.

Visualized through supercomputers, the violent dance of intergalactic gas, stars, dust and dark matter forms a large spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way. A few smaller galaxies are 'eaten' along the way.

Canada's astronaut star Chris Hadfield wowed the Internet last year when he posted a YouTube music video of David Bowie's epic 'Space Oddity' while actually living in space. Now, it's going away.

The flight crew for the X-15 which was developed to provide data on aerodynamics, structures, flight controls and the physiological aspects of high speed, high altitude flight.

There are many mysteries about the enigmatic ringed gas giant, but the curious mechanism behind Saturn's 'spokes' is one of the more intriguing puzzles.

A gas giant has been added to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging. It is located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the Sun and located in the constellation Pisces. The interna...

Rogozin, who oversees the country's space sector, said he would ban exports of RD-180s used to launch U.S. military satellites.

Earth's brilliant colors shine above the drab lunar horizon in this new "Earthrise" photo from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. An animation that accompanied the image release helped me to write an explainer on how push...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Anne Thompson describes her career as an adventure in various ozone layers, including meeting Paul Newman at the tropopause.

After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting light from distant wo...

At 19:15 UTC (3:15 p.m. EDT) today, three astronauts stuffed into a Soyuz capsule currently docked to the International Space Station will close the hatch, separating themselves from their three comrades. A little over t...

Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Tim Reyes, a former NASA software engineer and analyst who has supported development of orbital and lander missions to the planet Mars since 1992. The International Sun-Ear...

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather in Portsmouth from 23-26 June for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2014). The conference is the largest regular professional astronomy...

(Phys.org) --A team of researchers at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, which has recently been retrofitted with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is reporting in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the...

Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth Tuesday after 188 days in space, during which they orbited Earth more than 3,000 times and traveled almost 79.8 million miles.

Comets PanSTARRS and LINEAR are streaking through the night sky this month, and both should be visible through binoculars or a small telescope, experts say. Comet LINEAR may also spawn a spectacular meteor shower on May ...

Most supposed impact indicators are too old or too young to be remnants of an ancient comet that proponents claim sparked climate change at the end of the Ice Age, killed America's earliest people and caused a mass anima...

Astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen descended into NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool on Friday (May 9) to test out spacewalking techniques that could be used to explore a captured asteroid a decade or so from now.

In this simulation, 2 neutron stars weigh in at 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses and are separated by only 11 miles. Intense tidal forces pull the stars apart as they spiral towards each other and the black hole is formed amidst...