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Two Russian cosmonauts will put on their spacesuits and float outside the International Space Station tomorrow morning (June 19) for a six-and-a-half-hour maintenance job. You can watch the spacewalk live on SPACE.com.

NASA will not tap its Orion deep-space capsule as a backup system to fly astronauts to and from the international space station, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said June 18.

That oh-so-important first cup of coffee in the morning soon to be coming to the International Space Station. Espresso machine made by Italian company will arrive in November.

The senior senator from Florida was alluding to a directive Sen. Shelby fought to include in a report appended to a spending bill now awaiting debate on the Senate floor.

Our Sun is constantly sending a hot stream of charged atomic particles out into space in all directions. Pouring out from holes in the Sun’s corona, this solar wind flows through the Solar System at speeds of over 400 ...

From creating better vaccines, to helping the elderly, to inspiring students, the International Space Station creates a versatile research environment to study science, education and health--and to learn from them in way...

Europe's satellite launch industry needs to be overhauled to keep up with tough challenges from US rival SpaceX and other emerging competitors, the head of European satellite giant Arianespace has said.

During today's encounter -- the 103rd Titan flyby for Cassini over its long operational life -- the probe will skim just 2,274 miles (3,660 kilometers) above the moon at a speed of 13,000 mph (20,920 km/h), NASA official...

A Russian startup said Wednesday it will launch several satellites in the coming weeks, the country's first private satellite constellation, to offer maritime monitoring services.

NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to develop CuSPP, a CubeSat mission to study Solar Particles over the Earth's Poles. SwRI will also lead mission science operations and data analysis.

Astronomers have long assumed there were far more so-called "active" black holes than had been observed, but were unable to find any trace of them. In 2013, an international team of astronomers unexpectedly found hundred...

This is very interesting, if true: In England, it's being reported that in certain schools, creationism will no longer be taught as science. A few years ago, creationism was precluded from being taught in some of the sch...

Today: Body Measures: Commander (CDR) Swanson, with the help of Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Wiseman, conducted his Flight Day (FD) 80 session of Body Measures....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Apollo mission planners selected an adventurous landing site for Apollo 15 located on a relatively small patch of lava plains, called "mare" on the moon. This site is nestled between t...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Beginning in October 2014, the NASA Science Mission Directorate, or SMD, started a new, cross-divisional project to develop scientific CubeSats for all four science divisions within SM...

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have produced a spectacular image revealing new details of violent collisions involving at least four clusters of galaxies....

Stiff arteries in seniors here on Earth can lead to higher blood pressure and, potentially, problems with blood flow to the brain. But no blood pressure changes in astronauts have been noted so far, scientists said said.

NASA has awarded $500,000 and payload flight opportunities for research and technology development onboard the International Space Station to academic institutions across the U.S. The awards are through NASA's Experiment...

NASA has bid farewell to two veteran astronauts who have retired after a combined 66 years of federal service.

Widespread agricultural burning continues throughout central Africa, and smoke and fires were detected by NASA's Aqua satellite. Most of the fires were burning in the southern region of the Democratic Republic of the Con...

The 'guitar god' expresses his displeasure with the sorry state of Humanity's reach into the cosmos. 'Satch' likens space tourism flights to bad airline experiences and muses upon transporter beam practicality.

Two astronauts humorously demonstrate zero-gravity during the Skylab 4 mission.