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What's rocky, about a mile wide, orbits between Mars and Jupiter and poses no threat to Earth?

A billion-dollar experiment on the International Space Station may--or may not--have detected evidence of dark matter.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: High-resolution topographic data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, previously only available for the United States, will be released globally over the next ...

Its D-Day for MOM! The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is India's history making first mission to the Red Planet and she arrives today, Sept. 23/24 ! MOM's goal is to study Mars’ surface features, morphology, mineralogy, an...

Supposed evidence of gravitational waves from the dawn of time may actually be the signature of dust and gas in our own Milky Way galaxy, a new study reports.

The private space company's cargo spacecraft delivered supplies, a 3-D printer and more to the International Space Station on September 23rd, 2014. Full Story: ://goo.gl/6A5wcu

An interior view of the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 41 crew member aboard the station....

In the early morning hours of March 4, 2002, military officers in Bagram, Afghanistan desperately radioed a Chinook helicopter headed for the snowcapped peak of Takur Ghar. On board were 21 men, deployed to rescue a team...

In 1953, American chemist Stanley Miller had famously electrified a mixture of simple gas and water to simulate lightning and the atmosphere of early Earth. The revolutionary experiment--which yielded a brownish soup of ...

ATK positioned solid-rocket motors as a relatively near-term replacement for the RD-180, citing the company's quick development of six new solid motors, some of which were completed in less than two years.

When we go to Mars, will astronauts be able to grow enough food there to maintain a healthy diet? Will they be able to produce food in NASA's Orion spacecraft on the year-long trip to Mars? How about growing food on Eart...

After a two day chase through space, a commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule completed its orbital ballet and arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) today, Sept. 23, packed with some 2.5 tons of ground breakin...

NASA: Kepler News and Features: The K2 mission has successfully completed its first official science observations and the data are on the ground! Campaign 2 is underway.

Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, was presented a prestigious medal for government service at a gala in Washington Monday.

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Dragon spacecraft carrying more than 2 metric tons of cargo arrived at the international space station.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft captured and berthed by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is ready to fly and left the Netherlands today for the launch site in French Guiana.

A map of interstellar dust unveiled today from the obtained by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory has substantially reduced the chances that a South Pole telescope (above) glimpsed gravitational waves f...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft may still be 10 months from its historic flyby with dwarf planet Pluto, but it is making good use of its interplanetary cruise to get familiar with its flyby target by imaging Pluto's outer...

Well, how about that? In an interview on NPR's the Diane Rehm Show, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt comes right out and says that climate change deniers are "literally just lying." You can listen for yourself (it ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) orbiter, named Mangalyaan, will arrive at the Red Planet at 10:11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2014. Instruments aboard the spacecraft will study the Martian surface, composition ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Why is Mars so barren and dry? One theory is that the continuous blast of solar particles from the sun -- coupled with more extreme explosions such as coronal mass ejections -- might h...