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Elon Musk unveiled the private space company's new spacecraft on May 29th, 2014.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program and industry have completed the first step in the certification process that will enable American-made commercial spacecraft safely to ferry astronauts from U.S. soil to and from the Intern...

This speedy, rocky planet Mercury been readily visible, appearing as a bright 'star' low in the west-northwest sky about an hour after sunset and tonight (May 30) the moon joins the show.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Next week the launch window opens on full-scale, stratospheric tests of the saucer-shaped Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or SIAD, vehicle for landing large payloads on ...

(Phys.org) --NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars. This new evidence highlights the important role that supermassive black hole...

NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) has the same 2.4m diameter aperture as Hubble but will use 18 fourth-generation images sensors (Hubble has a single 'first-gen' sensor).

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter), Brian Koberlien (@briankoberlein) Robots repairing robots Dragon V2 announcement Asteroid smack Jupiter Life on a Mars Volcano BIC...

CAMMO is one of several consolidation contracts planned by the Air Force SMC as it copes with shrinking budgets.

The team behind the Spitzer Space Telescope, a mission reluctantly recommended for termination by a NASA-chartered panel of scientists, was set May 30 to send the agency a last-ditch proposal to keep the 11 year-old spac...

ViaSat is preparing for a broader court case in which other Loral-built satellites may be targeted as part of an injunction.

ViaSat is preparing for a broader court case in which other Loral-built satellites may be targeted as part of an injunction.

A toothbrush used by one of the American astronauts who flew to the Moon was sold at auction for nearly $12,000, or triple the starting bid, the auction house said Friday.

Little Joe's launch vehicle was launched for the first time on Oct. 4, 1959.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars....

When Comet 209P/LINEAR — the comet that brought us the Camelopardalids meteor shower last weekend – was first discovered in February of 2004, astronomers initially thought it was an asteroid. However, subsequent imag...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The new GPM Core Observatory satellite is now in the hands of the engineers who will fly the spacecraft and ensure its stream of rain and snow data.

What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life, leaving no lack of choice for astronomers to look for organisms beyond Earth. The challenge is, howeve...

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Commercial Crew Program and industry have completed the first step in the certification process that will enable American-made commercial spacecraft safely to ferry astronauts from U.S. soil to...

The supermassive black hole candidates at the center of every normal galaxy might be wormholes created in the early Universe, connecting either two different regions of our Universe or two different universes in a Multiv...

A lopsided square of 4 stars called the 'Keystone', found in he Hercules Constellation, points the way to the Hercules Cluster (M31). Draco (the Dragon) and Boötes (the Herdsman) also highlight June's skywatching.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars.

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