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A rare, long-lasting fireball streaked through the skies of the southeastern the United States Thursday night (May 15), putting on a show for stargazers lucky enough to see it from the ground.

The ESA Venus Express will dive to an orbit of 80 miles above Venus with the atmosphere-skimming maneuver. Mission controllers hope to maintain the orbit from June 18th - July 11th, 2014.

NASA mission priorities were explored by five winners of the 2014 International Space Apps Challenge, a worldwide "hackathon" to spark innovation with direct application to future space missions and improve life on Earth...

SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to leave the International Space Station and splash down intact in the ocean on Sunday (May 18), and you can watch it live online.

Two giants of aerospace history were honored at a May 13 ceremony to celebrate the renaming of Dryden Flight Research Center to Armstrong Flight Research Center, after the late Neil Armstrong and the naming of the center...

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

Rosetta is about to put on the brakes to ensure that it is on target for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....

The ambitious private project, the first of its type, is attempting to reuse the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which launched in 1978 and ceased science operations in 1997.

Escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington threaten to upend the cooperative relationships that today are integral to some of America's most important civil and military space activities.

NASA is rushing to award sole-source contracts to some 25 vendors for the planned sample-caching Mars 2020 rover.

Venus Express, currently the only spacecraft orbiting our nearest planetary neighbor, will soon meet a fiery end in Venus' atmosphere. But its work isn't over yet. ESA will maneuver Venus Express to dip into the uppermos...

The Venus Express probe is running low on fuel. So mission officials wrapped up routine science operations this week to begin preparing the spacecraft for a deep dive into the planet's fast-swirling air.

A correlation suggests an answer to the longstanding question of what triggers bolts --

Aerospace Corp. has begun evaluating U.S.-based alternatives to the RD-180.

A repurposed spacecraft may be put out to pasture in the coming years following the results of a NASA Senior Review, released Friday (May 16). The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which is now in the midst of ...

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“I’ve been wanting to get one of these for ages!” said astrophotographer Roger Hutchinson from London, England. This awesome image of the International Space Station transiting across the Sun earlier today — whic...

A Russian government-managed board of inquiry is being assembled to investigate the May 16 failure and is likely to report its conclusions within two months.

The first full-length trailer for the new movie "Interstellar" was released online today (May 16), and it's a doozy.

Space insurance underwriters reported $775 million in premiums in 2013 but may end up paying as much as $806 million in claims.

“Constrained budget conditions” have prompted NASA to not approve a funding extension for the 11-year-old Spitzer Space Telescope after fiscal 2015, but Spitzer officials emphasized that doesn’t necessarily mean th...

Matthew McConaughey's character is tapped to search for humanity's next home in the first full-length trailer for the new Christopher Nolan movie.