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A team of international researchers has discovered a new type of cool burning flames that could lead to cleaner, more efficient engines for cars....

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record was held by the Soviet Union's...

The three spacecraft -- two of which are fully operational and one of which is an experimental satellite -- blasted off today (July 28) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, riding atop a United Launch Allianc...

A cosmic lagoon glows within the clouds of the Milky Way in an incredible image.

A company plans to place two new cameras on the outside of the International Space Station in a bid to provide more live views of Earth from space.

Don't miss this amazing collection of images taken by crewmembers aboard the International Space Station showing beautiful auroras in the skies over Earth.

NASA wants to create a robotic gas station in space. While that might call to mind visions of interstellar starships, the unmanned depot won't actually be used to refuel rockets leading to the outer solar system or other...

Four astronauts resurfaced July 29 from an undersea laboratory where they had spent the past nine days honing space exploration skills while learning to live in close quarters. The expedition marked the first time in two...

The EU approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, followed swiftly by a new round of U.S. penalties targeting key sectors of the Russian economy.

Over the vast, empty reaches of interstellar space, countless small molecules tumble quietly though the cold vacuum. Forged in the fusion furnaces of ancient stars and ejected into space when those stars exploded, these ...

Arianespace Press Releases: Arianespace's latest resupply mission for the International Space Station has entered its final countdown phase at the Spaceport, advancing preparations for tonight's Ariane 5 liftoff with a r...

NASA Breaking News: After almost two decades with NASA, including two space shuttle missions, astronaut Mike Massimino left the space agency Monday for a full-time position with Columbia University in New York.

The fifth and final mission of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle got off to a flying start today with its launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, heading for the International Space Station.

Attempts to move a 36-year-old NASA probe closer to Earth have failed, but only because the vintage spacecraft is simply out of gas, according to the team of volunteer engineers now controlling the spacecraft.

A new space plane prototype's launch in November could pave the way toward the creation of a reusable cargo vehicle that would survive the blistering re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, according to the European Space Agen...

In astronomy we throw around the term “light-year” seemingly as fast as light itself travels. And yet actually measuring this distance is incredibly tricky. A star's parallax -- its tiny apparent shift once a year ca...

Citizen scientists observe and report evidence of light pollution --

Today: Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS)-II Operations: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Gerst conducted flame tests for the BASS-II investigation. The concurrent rods were burned as well as flat nomex fabric sample....

Boeing, Orbital and SSL will examine ways to fly NASA's TEMPO instrument.

The head of the international space station program at Roscosmos said the wall protecting the international space station and space exploration from the Ukrainian crisis might be starting to crack.

Three missions have already been selected: BioSentinel, Lunar Flashlight and Near Earth Asteroid Scout.

A billion-dollar telescope designed to provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way is ready to start work after teething problems, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.