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Now just 3 weeks and 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) from rendezvous with Mars, NASA's ground breaking Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter is tracking precisely on course for the crucial Mars Or...

Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete personality change from quiet and calm to violently active. The height of the sun's activity, known as solar maximum, is a time of numerous sunspots, punctuated ...

Our cosmic address extends well beyond Earth, past the Milky Way and toward the farthest reaches of the universe. But now astronomers are adding another line: the Laniakea Supercluster, which takes its name from the Hawa...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Interning at Goddard, Sarah Roth helped design a fuel tank that minimizes orbit-disturbances caused by sloshing propellant within the tank.

Sometimes, you just need to be reminded that our planet is a beautiful place to be. Or, a beautiful place to be above. Imagine seeing more than a dozen of these views every day ...

WorldVu has secured Ku-band spectrum from international regulators for a constellation of several hundred satellites to provide global Internet connectivity has grown to 30 people.

We belong to a local supercluster 100 times larger than previously thought, according to an analysis by astronomers who have named the supercluster Laniakea --

We belong to a local supercluster 100 times larger than previously thought, according to an analysis by astronomers who have named the supercluster Laniakea --

An intense M5.6-class solar flare erupted on August 24th, 2014 and NASA's SDO and STEREO spacecraft were on hand to observe it.

Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers led by York Universit...

Despite its mission extension, senior scientists warned the rover is at risk of underachieving, and that its status as crown jewel of the agency's planetary science division appears to have gone to the mission team's hea...

Astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. This discovery clar...

Kongsberg said the receivers will be placed on the SES-10 satellite.

A NASA satellite watched as a huge filament of plasma that had been creeping across the face of the sun erupted yesterday (Sept. 2).

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT)--among other telescopes--have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, whic...

Picking a landing site on Mars is a complex process. There’s the need to balance scientific return with the capabilities of whatever vehicle you’re sending out there. And given each mission costs millions (sometimes ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A small group of scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were among the first to figure out how to measure sea ice from satellites hyphen-hyphen long before Arctic sea ice beg...

If you have any predictions about the state of space exploration a decade from now, NASA would like to hear them. The agency is soliciting messages for a 'time capsule' to fly aboard its Osiris-Rex asteroid mission.

An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash memory....

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (left, red stripes) and Oleg Artemyev, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, attired in Russian Orlan spacesuits, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA)....

One of the Expedition 40 crew members 225 nautical miles above Earth onboard the International Space Station used a 200mm lens to record this image of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand on Aug. 10, 2014. Napier and the bay area's ...

Putin pledged 50 billion rubles to finish construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in anticipation of a 2015 first flight from the complex.