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Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type, such as oxygen, ozone, or methane, because in some cases these gases can be pro...

Scientists drew borders around the distinct landscapes of a comet where the Rosetta spacecraft will land this fall.

For the first time, astronomers have detected water ice clouds, like the ones that shroud Earth, around a dim celestial body outside of our solar system.

SpaceX's next unmanned cargo trip to restock supplies at the International Space Station is scheduled for September 20, the US space agency said Friday.

Improbable as it may seem, this question has been pinging around the Internet a lot this past week, because of a mix of Stephen Hawking and shameless sensationalism. Life is short (with or without the help of the Higgs),...

The largest spacecraft welding tool in the world, the Vertical Assembly Center officially is open for business at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The 170-foot-tall, 78-foot-wide giant completes a world-c...

Auroras showed up as forecast last night beginning around nightfall and lasting until about 1 a.m. CDT this morning. Then the action stopped. At peak, the Kp index dinged the bell at “5” (minor geogmagnetic storm) fo...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in August 2014.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer) (...)Read the...

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have announced that the Mars Science Lab (MSL), Curiosity Rover, has reached the base of the central peak inside Gale Crater, Aeolis Mons also known as Mount Sharp. Mount Sharp...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Two fires are seen burning in this satellite image taken by the Aqua satellite on September 11, 2014. The Selway complex of fires had been previously reported located 30 miles west of ...

Mitsubishi bested its U.S. and European competitors with a price between 10 and 15 percent lower.

NASA Breaking News: NASA will host a televised media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 17, to outline activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile E...

An old brick building on Harvard's Observatory Hill is overflowing with rows of dark green cabinets -- each one filled to the brim with hundreds of astronomical glass plates in paper sleeves: old-fashioned photographic n...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Russian satellite imagery distributor Sovzond said the precipitous drop in satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe's business in Russia this year was due to a combination of factors -- mostly business-related, but some p...

Russian satellite imagery distributor Sovzond said the precipitous drop in satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe's business in Russia this year was due to a combination of factors -- mostly business-related, but some p...

NASA Breaking News: The largest spacecraft welding tool in the world, the Vertical Assembly Center officially is open for business at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The 170-foot-tall, 78-foot-wide giant...

Today: 38 Soyuz (38S) Undock and Landing: Expedition 40 Commander (CDR) Swanson, Flight Engineer (FE)-1 Skvortsov, and FE-2 Artemyev undocked from the ISS today at 6:01 p.m. CDT and landed in Kazakhstan at 9:23 p.m CDT.....

Underscoring the vast differences between Earth and its neighbor Venus, new research shows a glimpse of giant holes in the electrically charged layer of the Venusian atmosphere, called the ionosphere....

China's major push into medium- and high-resolution satellite imagery has accomplished its first task in reducing to nearly zero the amount of Earth observation data China purchases from non-Chinese sources.

China's major push into medium- and high-resolution satellite imagery has accomplished its first task in reducing to nearly zero the amount of Earth observation data China purchases from non-Chinese sources.