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NASA announced a new era in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station....

The reins of the International Space Station were passed from NASA's Steve Swanson to Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Sept. 9....

Scientists believe they have found a way to explain why there are not as many galaxies orbiting the Milky Way as expected....

A bill that would grant property rights and other protections for commercial asteroid mining ventures received a mixed reception at a hearing of the House Science space subcommittee Sept. 10.

A new NASA instrument expected to launch to space later this month will help scientists study the Earth in a new way from the International Space Station.

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event.

Today: Change of Command Ceremony: The Change of Command Ceremony occurred at the end of the crew day today in preparation for return of the 38S Crew tomorrow. ISS CDR Swanson, handed over to Expedition 41 CDR Suraev. Un...

The moon will wow stargazers with a total lunar eclipse on Oct. 7 and 8, but you don't have to wait to start preparing for the event. The pre-dawn moon on Thursday, Sept. 11, will be in the same position as on Oct. 8, of...

Sunspot AR2158 produced a X1.6-class flare on September 10th, 2014. The site of the blast faced where Earth would be if a coronal mass ejection (CME) was emitted. Imagery not yet fully returned from orbiting observatorie...

The letter to Dordain makes clear that these fleet operators have a ho-hum view of the Ariane 5 ME.

It was 1976, America's bicentennial, but the nation's celebratory mood did not extend to big-ticket astronomy projects -- at least not as far as Congress was concerned.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA data and expertise are proving invaluable in California's ongoing response to the Aug. 24 magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa Valley, northeast of San Francisco.

The machine is expected to let astronauts create parts to order --

Boeing will deliver two Phoenix platforms equipped with high-resolution hyperspectral imaging sensors that would be ready for launch within several months of one another starting in the first quarter of 2018.

As the moon moves in its orbit around the Earth, it inevitably passes in front of many stars and planet and Uranus will find itself in the moon's crosshairs tonight (Sept. 10).

This new picture of M54 — a part of a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way called the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy — is part of a “test case” astronomers have to figure out a mystery of missing lithium. For decades, ast...

Starting today at NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists from the University of New Hampshire will attempt to launch a football-field-sized balloon carrying a one-ton ins...

Spacecraft “selfies” are always a treat and this one is doubly awesome: taken by the Philae lander piggybacked onto ESA’s Rosetta, it shows one of the spacecraft’s 14-meter-long (46-foot) solar arrays glinting wi...

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe, and display a mysterious diversity in their appearance that have puzzled astronomers for more than two decades. Now, scientists think they have a method for solving that...

Dankberg defended his company's decision to settle a two-year patent-infringement lawsuit against Loral.

NewSat said it is not in a "work-out" situation with its major lenders, the U.S. and French export-credit agencies, but that the company is going through an acknowledged rough period as it builds its first satellite and ...

NewSat said it is not in a "work-out" situation with its major lenders, the U.S. and French export-credit agencies, but that the company is going through an acknowledged rough period as it builds its first satellite and ...