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NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA – Investigators probing last week's catastrophic failure of an Antares commercial rocket moments after liftoff, are pointing the finger at the rockets Soviet-era built engines as the pr...

A planet-forming disk around a million-year-old star has been imaged in unprecedented detail --

When Comet Siding Spring skimmed just 84,500 miles from Mars last month, NASA’s Opportunity and Curiosity Rovers – along with several orbiting Mars spacecraft – readied their cameras to record the historic flyby. O...

ESA is proposing to inject 8 billion euros into Europe's launch sector over 10 years starting in 2015, including some 4.3 billion euros on a new Ariane 6 rocket.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has struck hematite — an iron-oxide mineral often associated with water-soaked environments — in its first drill hole inside the huge Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) on Mars. While in this case oxi...

NASA is getting ready to launch a daring test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars or an asteroid.

The first samples collected by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity at the foot of a huge Martian mountain have provided some vital ground-truthing of data gathered from orbit.

Theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will present a free live Webcast on the latest insights into the nature of spacetime from the quantum world   --

During a NASA Television media briefing from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials discussed the completed construction of the new Orion spacecraft and details of its first test flight, scheduled f...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies, a diffuse cosmic glow as bright as all known galaxies combined. Th...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies, a diffuse cosmic glow as bright as all known g...

(Phys.org) --Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other stars. These dusty disks, likely created by colli...

As many as half of all stars in the universe lie in the vast gulfs of space between galaxies, an unexpected discovery made in a new study using NASA rockets. These stars could help solve mysteries regarding missing light...

A close-up view of a flickering black hole jet has scientist rethinking how these enormous eruptions form.

Friday's tragic accident will delay Virgin Galactic's progress and may also result in more governmental oversight of the company and others that seek to launch paying customers to space, experts say. But space tourism it...

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxie...

Meteor explosion Milky Way Time Lapse. By: Wes Eisenhauer from wes eisenhauer on Vimeo. The Milky Way likes to amaze us, and this great video shot by Wes Eisenhauer outside of Custer, South Dakota, shows an amazing explo...

China's Chang'e series of lunar probes are part of a series leading up to ultimately returning samples of moon rock to the Earth. See how China's lunar exploration program aims for the moon in this Space.com infographic.

Branson, forever drawn to the next business frontier, fell for the challenge of space travel in the same way that the allure of aviation had caused him to found Virgin Atlantic in the mid-1980s, and ultimately to sell hi...

It truly is revolutionary, Or you could call it the holy grail, or the smoking gun--almost any cliche you throw at it works, because this is the real deal. What you are witnessing here is nothing less than the genesis of...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other stars....

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats Over the past few years, astronomers have found an incredible diversity in the architecture of exoplanetary systems, as well as the planets themselv...