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The US Air Force’s unmanned, X-37B military space plane made an autonomous runway landing on Friday, Oct. 17, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., concluding an orbital test flight nearly two years in duration on a re...

During an October 15 spacewalk outside the International Space Station - the second U.S. spacewalk in as many weeks - Expedition 41 Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore of NASA, replaced a failed voltage regul...

Jared Espley and Michelle Thaller talk about the close encounter between Mars and Comet Siding Spring at the Oct 17, 2014....

Comet Siding Spring -- unknown and undiscovered until 2013 -- will zoom past the Red Planet Sunday afternoon (Oct. 19) in an encounter that could help scientists better understand how the solar system came to be.

The unmanned, reusable space plane landed at the Air Force Base in Californoa on October 17th, 2014. The Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 (OTV-3) spent 22 months in space on a secret mission. Full Story: ://goo.gl/yDm3Ai

Sen. Heinrich said he continued to support efforts in Congress to fund development of a replacement for the RD-180 rocket engine despite a joint venture by Blue Origin and ULA to develop such an engine on their own.

On Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, at about 18:30 UTC (14:30 Eastern), Mars will experience a very close encounter with a comet.  The comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will pass just about 130,000 km (80,000 miles) from the surfac...

Scientists and satellites gear up for a comet’s spectacular chance encounter with Mars --

The U.S. Air Force landed its mysterious X-37B space plane at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 17, 2014. See photos of the X-37B spacecraft's landing here.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 (OTV-3), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:24 a.m. Oct. 17....

People in most of the continental United States will be in the shadow of the Moon on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 23, as a partial solar eclipse sweeps across the Earth. For people looking through sun-safe filters, from Los ...

ESA astronaut, Andre Kuipers took some stunning views of Earth during his mission, PromISSe....