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The U.S. Air Force is still weeks away from making the long-delayed award of a multibillion-dollar contract to support the nation's two main launch ranges.

Three crew members representing the United States and Russia are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 25 (2:25 a.m. o...

NASA Breaking News: Three crew members representing the United States and Russia are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 p.m. EDT Thursday, S...

A Neptune-sized orb is the smallest alien world known to have water vapor --

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket launched a new crew for the International Space Station into orbit on Thursday (Sept. 25). See how the NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore and his Russian crewmates will reach the space station in j...

The India Space Research Organization unveils its first pictures of the red planet --

Three new members of the International Space Station's Expedition 41 crew launched into orbit on Sept. 25, 2014 (Eastern Time). See photos of their launch and arrival at the orbiting laboratory.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, including the first woman cosmonaut in 17 years, blasted off on schedule Friday, Russian mission control said.

A Federal Aviation Administration official says a new report on commercial human spaceflight safety is intended to support the development of standards by industry and is not part of an effort to impose regulations on th...

Russia's first female cosmonaut to travel to the International Space Station, Yelena Serova, will launch early Friday morning, making her the fourth Russian woman in history to go to space.

The 65th International Astronautical Congress mobile app is now available for download for Apple, Android and Blackberry devices....

Up to half of the water on Earth is likely older than the solar system itself, University of Michigan astronomers theorize. The researchers' work helps to settle a debate about just how far back in galactic history our p...

Computer models of the magnetic field during the 19th century coronal mass ejection (CME) is compared to a moderate 2006 blast. English amateur astronomer Richard Carrington observed the 1859 solar flare that gave birth ...

Only astronomers know for sure… Or do they? In this assembly of images taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, scientists have utilized both visible and infrared light to survey a most unusual galaxy. When l...

Complex carbon-bearing molecules detected in interstellar space suggest key ingredients for life on Earth could have alien origins.

A new model suggests that up to half of the water on Earth may be older than the Sun and the rest of the Solar System. The model indicates that much of our planet’s water originated in the molecular cloud that created ...

Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and is also important to evaluating the possibility of life on other planets....

Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and is also important to evaluating the possibility of life on other planets. Identifying the original source of Earth's water is key to understanding how life-fostering env...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Cornell University, and the University of Cologne have for the first time detected a carbon-bearing molecule with a "branched" structure in interstellar space...

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy: Detection of iso-propyl cyanide with ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

India's first spacecraft to visit Mars is beaming back its first photos of the Red Planet just days after its arrival this week. See the first photos of Mars by India's Mangalyaan spacecraft as part of it Mars Orbiter Mi...

Scientists have shown how gravitational waves - invisible ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate through the universe - might be "seen" by looking at the stars. The new model proposes that a star that osc...