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An international team of astronomers, using data from several NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) space observatories, has discovered unexpected behavior from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy NGC 5...

A celebrated and controversial astrophysics discovery is about to receive even more scrutiny. In March, a team of astronomers announced that they had spotted the signature of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic ...

Born in a disc of gas and rubble, planets eventually come together as larger and larger pieces of dust and rock stick together. They may be hundreds of light-years away from us, but astronomers can nevertheless watch the...

U.S. Sens. Richard Shelby and Bill Nelson squared off the week of June 16 for a showdown over holding NASA's commercial crew program to stricter financial reporting standards.

The White House took issue with the 2015 defense spending bill drafted by a House panel, which sets aside $220 million for the engine.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will rendezvous in early August, shows no signs of the dust cloud it sported in April and May, new photos reveal.

A new satellite image beautifully highlights the Earth forming a perfect crescent as the midnight sun beams down on the far northern reaches of the globe --

The astronomers who announced earlier this year evidence of a signal from the dawn of time now are taking a more cautious stance --

Eyes in the sky got you bugged? A Personal Drone Detection System may be able to tell you when to look up and wave to the camera.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was rolled out to its Florida launch pad early this morning at 1 a.m., Friday, June 20, in anticipation of blastoff at 6:08 p.m. EDT this evening on an oft delayed commercial mission for ORBCOMM ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A NASA-created rainfall map showed northwestern Iowa received the heaviest soaking from rainfall from severe weather over the past week. Rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measur...

NASA's Solar Dynamics observatory captured imagery of dark strands of plasma erupting away from the surface of the Sun on June 19th, 2014. The ensuing coronal mass ejection was captured by the NASA / ESA SOHO observatory...

Three weeks into ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst's Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station and the new arrival is now spending more time on scientific research in the microgravity laboratory.

NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s -- all on the agency's human Path to Mars....

The International Space Station (ISS) is not just an orbiting laboratory full of traditional research seen through the microscope; it also serves as an important technology test bed. Based on findings published last year...

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

This astronaut has a big smile after his orbit mission in Faith 7.

ViaSat is seeking a court injunction to stop SSL from continuing work on at least one satellite it is building.

A Dnepr successfully deployed 33 satellites ranging in size from several hundred kilograms to less than 5 kilograms each into low Earth orbit.

Sometimes it takes a second look — or even more — at an astronomical object to understand what’s going on. This is what happened after astronomers obtained this image of NGC 5548 using the Hubble Space Telescope in...

SpaceX just released video of another successful flight test of its reusable Falcon F9R rocket. The F9R reached a height of 1,000 meters (well over half a mile) and deployed steerable fins that will be used to help direc...

Airbus and Safran have proposed that the CNES and ESA scrap much of their previous 18 months' work on a next-generation Ariane 6 rocket in favor of a design that includes much more liquid propulsion.