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World View is one step closer to sending passengers up to the edge of space in a balloon after a successful June 18 testing of a prototype of the service.

Today: Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS)-II Operations: FE-5 Wiseman completed four rods in five flame tests for the BASS-II investigation....

The sun's volatile atmosphere is even bigger than scientists expected, a NASA spacecraft has revealed. The space agency's STEREO satellite found that the solar atmosphere, known as the corona, stretches 5 million miles a...

Footage from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, shows the mesmerizing flow of sound-like waves moving through the sun's corona.

The Angara rocket was scheduled to blast off today (June 27) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, but automated control systems detected a problem and aborted the launch during the final countdown, Reuters re...

Within the Milky Way's invisible heart lurks a black hole.

Russia postpones launch of first new rocket design since the Soviet era. Technical glitch aborts launch just before blast-off, rescheduled for next day.

I’ve used some statistical tools to analyze the spatial distribution of Galaxy Zoo galaxies and to see whether we find galaxies with particular classifications in more dense environments or less dense ones. By “envir...

Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles....

The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence during the Oligocene epoch, some 33.6 million years ago, according to data from a 2013 international expedition led by the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IAC...

Talk about a cosmic caffeine jolt. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian espresso machine.

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If Germany won, NASA's Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman get their heads shaved. If USA won, ESA's Alexander Gerst gets the US flag painted on his head. Gerst's ISS'barber shop' was open for business after the game. FULL ST...

With its solar panels their cleanest in years, NASA's decade-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is inspecting a section of crater-rim ridgeline chosen as a priority target due to evidence of a water-related mineral.....

She said the company decided to further delay the flight until maintenance at Cape Canaveral was complete.

The former NASA Assistant Administrator for Policy and former Assistant Director for Research Applications at the National Science Foundation came to NACA in 1944.

The glowing Milky Way shines over Rattlesnake Lake in Washington State in this stunning image. Astrophotographer Matt Zietzke took this image from Rattlesnake Lake near North Bend, Washington on May 19, 2014.

Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 647 in out-of-this-world Here’s the latest interactive panorama via panoramacist Andrew Bodrov from imagery taken by the Curiosity Mars at Gale Crater, from Sol 647 ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which observes the low level of the sun's atmosphere, marked its first year in space on June 27.

My Twitter feed exploded on June 25 with reports of colorful, crazy-looking clouds, sundogs, Sun halos and more. The above image from Nathanial Burton-Bradford is just an example of the type of atmospheric effect called ...

SES told investors it is flexing its muscles to assure that a European commercial electric-satellite product is developed to compete with Boeing and other U.S. providers, and to force Europe's launch vehicle industry to ...

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