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The US military's mysterious robot space plane is expected to land this week after a 22-month orbit, officials said Tuesday, but the craft's mission remains shrouded in secrecy.

NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter has been busy since it arrived at the Red Planet late last month, collecting detailed data about Mars' upper atmosphere.

Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield shares his favorite images of Earth from space in a new book, "You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes."

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars....

Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation which has a mission to establish a human settlement on Mars. Starting in 2024, Mars One intends to set up a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two ...

Cyclone Hudhud made landfall in east-central India on Oct. 12 and caused a lot of damage and several fatalities as it moved inland and weakened to a remnant low pressure area. NASA saw those remnants on Oct. 14....

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

Boo! An amazing new photo taken by a NASA spacecraft seems to show the sun with creepy jack-o-lantern grin just in time for Halloween.

NASA Shares What MAVEN Spacecraft Has Seen in its First Few Weeks at Mars at a news teleconference at today 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 14, to announce early science results from its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (...

Holy Periodic Comet Photos! Check. This. Out! That is a self-portrait taken by the Philae landing craft onboard the Rosetta space probe, when they were just 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimen...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, ...

A proposed international convention on space-asset identification and legal treatment has survived near-unanimous vilification by large satellite fleet operators, satellite manufacturers, launch service providers, insure...

Is matter falling into the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way or being ejected from it? No one knows for sure, but a UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist is searching for an answer. Carl Gwinn, a professor...

The four spacecraft constituting NASA's MMS mission are undergoing final preshipment tests at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: When a volcano erupts or a big wildfire flares up, physical scientist Peter Colarco helps predict where the plumes will travel.

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the spectacular discovery of meteorite fragments 20 years after the corresponding bolide was seen in the skies of the Czech Republic. This discovery was made possible by reanalyzing...

This latest image was taken by the CIVA imaging system on board Rosetta's lander Philae, on 7 October....

The U.S. Air Force says its unmanned X-37B spaceplane will land soon at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

"The Chinese people stand ready to work together with people from all over the world," said Zhou Lini of the Center for National Security and Strategic Studies at China's National University of Defense Technology in a pr...

Rosetta and Philae snap a selfie close to the comet