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NASA says recent accidents in Virginia and California won't change plans for first launch test of Orion crew capsule. Craft that could someday take astronauts to Mars will be launched in unmanned test Dec. 4, space agenc...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of the debris disks surrounding nearby stars. These dusty disks, likely created by collisions ...

Early on the morning of Dec. 19, 2013, the pre-dawn sky above the coastal town of Kourou in French Guiana was briefly sliced by the brilliant exhaust of a Soyuz VS06 rocket as it ferried ESA's "billion-star surveyor" Gai...

Two NASA and one European spacecraft, including NASA's MAVEN mission led by the University of Colorado Boulder, have gathered new information about the basic properties of a wayward comet that buzzed by Mars Oct. 19, dir...

An international group of specialists in the field of planetary sciences has found strong evidence that lava flows on Mars may also host base and precious metals.

Earth observation image of the week: the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth's surface, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

NASA has officially confirmed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, clearing it to move forward into the development phase....

In the film 'Interstellar,' astronauts use a variety of spacecraft to cross the universe and explore alien worlds. See how they work in this Space.com infographic.

Wormhole travel across the universe and supergiant black holes are just some of the wonders seen in the film 'Interstellar.' See how the film's astrophysics works in this Space.com infographic.

“Thousands of meteors per hour would have been visible -- truly astounding to the human eye.” That’s Nick Schneider’s description of what you and I would have seen standing on Mars during Comet Siding Spring’s ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency are making final preparations to land the first spacecraft on a comet next week.

NASA Breaking News: NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage from 9-11:30 a.m. EST (6-8:30 a.m. PST) of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission's scheduled landing of a probe on a comet...

A rocket experiment has captured the glow attributed to renegade stars in intergalactic space --

I had an opportunity to stand next to a spaceship from the film "Interstellar" this morning and fly through a simulation of yet another spacecraft from the film....

In the wake of the last weeks disastrous failure of the Orbital Sciences commercial Antares rocket seconds after blastoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, VA, on a critical resupply mission to the space station, Orbi...

In the recently released Rosetta short film called “Ambition”, the master begins a story to his apprentice – “Once upon a time.” The apprentice immediately objects to his triteness. But he promises that it is w...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The sun emitted a significant solar flare, an X1.6-class, peaking at 12:26 pm EST on Nov. 7, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an imag...

Two NASA and one European spacecraft that obtained the first up-close observations of a comet flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, have gathered new information about the basic properties of the comet's nucleus and directly detecte...

Under the contract, the EC will pay Eumetsat 229 million euros for Eumetsat's exploitation of these satellites' data for the Copernicus marine service starting in 2015.

Under the contract, the EC will pay Eumetsat 229 million euros for Eumetsat's exploitation of these satellites' data for the Copernicus marine service starting in 2015.

The targets -- one short-range ballistic missile and two cruise missiles -- were all launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.

NASA Breaking News: Two NASA and one European spacecraft that obtained the first up-close observations of a comet flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, have gathered new information about the basic properties of the comet's nucleus ...