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Ten years ago, the Cassini-Huygens mission entered the Saturnian System and in January 2005, the Huygens probe landed softly on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. These historic events, which revolutionized our...

NASA's first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew and service module will be transferred together on...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) completed several major external reviews earlier this year and is on target to break ground in the Chilean Andes before the end of 2014. The huge scope should begin observing the heaven...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova....

Japanese companies are seeking a bigger share of the commercial satellite and launch markets, at the encouragement of the government.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA has awarded a contract to ASRC Space and Defense, Incorporate (AS&D) of Greenbelt, Maryland for the Wallops Engineering Services contract procurement for NASA Goddard Space Flight...

When a private spaceship was cremated over Earth earlier this summer, the astronauts living and working on board the International Space Station had a stunning view of the vehicle's fiery demise.

Holy moly! Take a look at this new 4K timelapse video from ESA created from imagery taken by astronaut Alexander Gerst. Before you watch, however, you might want to change your video viewing setting to as high as they ca...

Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. Plate tectonics are essential to life as we know it, according to Diana Valencia of Harvard University. Plate tectonics -the movement of huge ch...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Astronomers "fishing" for galaxies turn up surprisingly massive catch.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Astronomers "fishing" for galaxies turn up surprisingly massive catch. In one of the longest surveys the telescope will have ever performed, astronomers have begun a three-month expedition...

Hey, it’s Mars in your browser! Panning around this scene that the Mars Curiosity rover captured earlier this month is the next best thing to being on the Red Planet. Close by the rover’s is the terrain that proved f...

Sunspot AR2158 unleashed an M4.6-class flare on September 9, 2014. NASA estimates that the coronal mass ejection (CME) was moving pretty fast. According to Spaceweather.com, "it will deliver a glancing blow to Earth's ma...

A team of scientists At the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile has discovered the first evidence of water ice clouds on an object outside of our own Solar System. Water ice clouds exist on our own gas giant planets --...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been snapping imagery of Earth throughout his stay on the ISS. The space agency's production team created the movie with artistic effects such as light trails, created when superimposing...

The RAS will award two RAS Research Fellowships in 2015, to begin on 1 October 2015 or within 6 months thereafter. Each fellowship provides post-doctoral funding for up to three years. The fellowships are offered to outs...

The mission that will study the Red Planet's atmosphere will reach its target on September 21, 2014 at 10pm EST. Its transfer orbit and orbital insertion are explained.

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats For over two decades astronomers have been patiently monitoring the fading glow of a supernova in a nearby galaxy. They've been looking for a suspec...

The full moon of September 2014 marked the Harvest Moon for the year. See amazing photos of the 2014 Harvest Full Moon sent in by stargazers in this Space.com gallery.

NASA Breaking News: NASA and Honeywell are inviting media to participate in the west coast kickoff of the 10th anniversary celebration of their FMA Live! Forces in Motion tour. The tour show will visit three Seattle-area...

A series of new Earth science instruments launching to the International Space Station over the next year is prompting a new era of Earth observation from the orbiting outpost. These new tools that monitor ocean winds an...

The Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) programme has released it first Continental Environmental Bulletin in english. The bulletin includes reports on the recent rainfall, vegetation, and marine pri...