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A spacecraft attached to the International Space Station did an “emergency maneuver” to push the complex, which now houses six people, away from a threatening piece of space debris Oct. 27, the European Space Agency ...

Cameras aboard the International Space Station captured a serene view of Hurricane Vance, which is heading toward Mexico's west coast.

American Astronomical Society: We are pleased to announce the conference "WISE at 5: Legacy and Prospects" to be held 10-12 February 2015 at the Beckman Institute Auditorium of the California Institute of Technology in P...

Karen Nyberg was seeing stars. A NASA astronaut, Nyberg wasn't in space or outside looking up at the Houston night sky. In fact, she was at that moment inside a convention center at the International Quilt Festival.

A GAO report says that distributed satellite constellations may solve some problems for the Defense Department, but would also create new difficulties.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A NASA media telecon on Friday, Nov. 7, will provide initial science observations of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring's close flyby of Mars and the impact on the Martian a...

The investigation into the explosion of a private rocket last week is eyeing the launch vehicle's first-stage engines, which were made in the Soviet Union at the height of the space race.

China made its first round-trip mission to the moon with a robotic spacecraft in October and November of 2014. See photos from the flight, China's fourth moon mission, in this Space.com gallery.

An amazing new photo taken by a NASA probe shows Saturn and its large moon Titan shining as pretty crescents in deep space.

Out There is not a political blog. Quite the opposite: It is a celebration of the outer boundaries of human exploration, where I deliberately steer away from most of the issues associated with our daily grind. Neverthele...

Hurricane Vance was a hurricane on Nov. 4 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite passed overhead and measured its rainfall from spa...

Two prominent launch disasters have dampened a wave of optimism about the burgeoning industry.

We’re still a few years away from the cute robots in Moon or Interstellar that help their human explorers. But if we want to build a base off of Earth, robotic intelligence will be essential to lower the cost and pave ...

Three astrophysicists -- Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Harry Nelson and Gray Rybka -- share their preparations for three new dark matter experiments, and the likelihood that one of them will strike research gold.

A fireball was spotted over the east coast of the United States on Nov. 3rd, 2014. A Benwood, West Virginia Police Department cruiser captured footage of it.

The image above shows IC 1101, a supergiant elliptical galaxy of approximately 6 million light-years across, which makes it the largest known galaxy discovered to date. It lies about 1.07 billion light-years away from Ea...

A shadow cosmos, woven silently into our own, may have its own rich inner life --

NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST on Friday, Nov. 7, to provide initial science observations of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring's close flyby of Mars and the impact on the Martian atmosphere.

Three of the crew members aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to depart the orbiting laboratory Sunday, Nov. 9 after almost six months aboard. NASA Television will provide complete coverage.

Orbital Sciences Corporation said Wednesday a preliminary probe into last month's unmanned rocket blast shows an engine failure was to blame for the explosion shortly after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia.

Under the "go-forward" plan the company announced, Orbital will perform one or two launches of Cygnus cargo vehicles using a launch vehicle yet to be announced.

The galactic center is a happening place, with lots of gas, dust, stars, and surprising binary stars orbiting a supermassive black hole about three million times the size of our sun. With so many stars, astronomers estim...