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The video -- a supercomputer simulation created by researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -- chronicles the growth of a spiral galaxy, beginning with its birth shortly after the Big Bang that created the unive...

Moscow delivered a double whammy of bad news to US space programs today by banning the use of Russian made rocket engines for US military national security launches and by declining to prolong cooperation on the Internat...

Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide an important cosmological test of...

The detection of a runaway star may explain how a massive object turned into a dense, magnetic magnetar instead of collapsing into a black hole --

Expedition 38 crew member Mike Hopkins shows how the Canadarm 2 (ISS robotic arm) is controlled by astronauts to snare the Orbital Science Cygnus and SpaceX Dragon spacecrafts. -- See SpaceX Dragon Capture: ://goo.gl/zKQ...

This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing its atmosphere over billions of years.

New images of Earth's Moon reveal more than can be seen with the naked eye, thanks to the combined efforts of the two largest radio telescopes of their kind -- the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telesc...

Data from ocean-observing satellites and other ocean sensors indicate that El Niño conditions appear to be developing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Conditions in May 2014 bear some similarities to those of May 1997, ...

This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing its atmosphere over billions of years....

Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe -- millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets on Earth....

Orbital and ATK had said they were interested in launching national security space payloads.

OHB reported a 45 percent increase in revenue for the three months ending March 31 and a 58 percent increase in pretax profit.

No forests or rats in there — but those eye-catching images of Mars terrain do have some alien messages for us.

For the last two years, NASA has been the shy partner refusing to get on the dance floor, and Congress has been the aggressive partner insisting on a dance now. Recently, NASA has said maybe on another night but only if ...

The call by one Russian official to ban Russian rocket engine use on U.S. military launches and to pull out of the International Space Station project by 2020, could have far-reaching repercussions for U.S. spaceflight i...

The regulations will remove some satellite hardware and technology from the U.S. Munitions List.

Known as Cepheid variables, the stars have positions and young ages that indicate a warp to the galaxy's arm. This was previously suggested by observations of dust but had not been shown by the presence of stars.

Their services have permeated daily lives for countless millions of people, and now the latest Global Positioning System satellite is awaiting blastoff Thursday (May 15) to bolster the navigation network.

MHI said it had received an order from Sky Perfect JSat Corp. to launch an unidentified satellite in 2016.

Every year, a fierce battle takes place. Only those with steely disposition, brave hearts, and sharp brains can withstand it. It is not for the faint of heart, for those of us who survive will eat the souls of the losers...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: In a newly released video, you'll see that during the first phase of the mission, MMS will focus on reconnection sites on the sun-side of Earth, The second phase will focus on reconnec...

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio of Waterbury, Connecticut, who returned from the International Space Station Tuesday (May 13 U.S. time), will be available for live satellite interviews from 7 to 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, May 2...