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The dazzling Perseid meteor shower has not yet reached its peak, but NASA cameras planted on the ground in the United States have already witnessed some early fireballs streaking across the summer sky.

Google is paying tribute to the annual Perseid meteor shower -- peaking tonight (Aug. 12) -- with a special doodle honoring the usually spectacular cosmic display.

The U.S. Navy has honored the nation's first woman in space, christening its new ocean research ship after the late astronaut Sally Ride.

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin paid his respects to comedian Robin Williams today with a post on Facebook. The Oscar-winning actor was found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in California on Monday (Aug. 11). He...

Who doesn't love an upgrade? Newer, better and oh so shiny is great, but what's really fantastic is when a change unlocks new possibilities. That's the case with NASA's fix-it investigation on the International Space Sta...

Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct. Many of them perished in five cataclysmic events. The classical "Big Five" mass extinctions identified by Raup and Sepkoski are widely agreed upon ...

I firmly believe that our next greatest discovery will be detecting an exomoon in orbit around a distant exoplanet. Although no one has been able to confirm an exomoon -- yet -- the hunt is on. Now, a research team think...

The fifth and final European ATV made a smooth automatic docking to the international space station where it will deliver some 7,200 kilograms of food, water, fuel and supplies.

The actor/comedian recorded a wake-up call for the STS-26 crew that was relayed on September 30th, 1988 by CAPCOMs Kathy Sullivan (standing) and Kathy Thornton (seated on console). Full Story: ://goo.gl/cQDaQN

The international Cassini-Huygens mission scanned a gathering cloud mass over the methane sea known as Ligeia Mare on Saturn's largest moon Titan between July 20th and 22nd 2014.

A Lunar X-Prize team from Pittsburgh explains its automated Moon landing system in this clip from the premiere episode of the Science Channel show. (Airs August 13th, 2014)

In the premiere episode of the Science Channel show, the Lunar X-Prize competition is profiled and the Moon's abundant resources are described. (Airs August 13th, 2014)

The annual best-of-summer meteor shower peaks late Tuesday and into the wee hours Wednesday morning.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped away from Titan following a relatively close flyby, its cameras monitored the moon's northern polar region, capturing signs of renewed cloud activity....

On October 19, 2014, Comet Siding Spring will pass by Mars only 132,000 km away--which would be like a comet passing about 1/3 of the distance between Earth and the Moon.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A supermassive black hole is grabbing and stretching light to an extreme degree never seen before.

An extraordinary amount of ultraviolet light appears to be missing from the universe, scientists have found.One potential source of this missing light might be the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the mass in...

Scientists have used NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an orbiting X-ray telescope, to capture an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact so...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan.

Hylas 4 will deliver up to 28 gigahertz of throughput to 66 fixed beams plus four steerable beams.

Here's a great video from a camera mounted on the exterior of the TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission from the UK. It launched on July 8, 2014 on a Soyuz-2, and the video shows the satellite momen...

TechDemoSat-1 was launched on July 8th, 2014 aboard a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle. Its inspection camera captured the Soyuz upper stage (gold object) and another satellite it was launched with (white dot @ 34 seconds) over th...