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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Following a picture perfect launch on Dec. 5, 2014, flawless test flight and safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, NASA first Orion spacecraft has been recovered from the ocean and brought ba...

"Usually what we do isn't rocket science, unless it is", the U.S. president joked as the lead in to a congratulatory message to NASA's Orion chief engineer Julie Kramer. He made the remarks at the conference for senior l...

Just how did the Earth--our home and the place where life as we know it evolved--come to be created in the first place? In some fiery furnace atop a great mountain? On some divine forge with the hammer of the gods shapin...

Just in time for the festive period, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dazzling image of a globular star cluster filled with stellar glitter.

Following the catastrophic Oct. 28 failure of Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on a critical resupply mission to the space station for NASA, the company is seeking to quickly make up the loss to NASA by announ...

Results from the Rosetta mission, which made history by landing on comet 67P in November, an unprecedented, close-up look at a comet is helping scientists to answer the fundamental question of whether a bombardment of th...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A 13-year decline in vegetation in the eastern and southeastern Amazon has been linked to a decade-long rainfall decline in the region, a new NASA-funded study finds.

The mystery of where Earth's water came from got murkier Wednesday when some astronomers essentially eliminated one of the chief suspects: comets.

Asteroids, not comets, may have delivered most of Earth's water to the planet when the solar system was young, new data from a probe orbiting a comet suggests.

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels the debate on the origin of our planet's oceans.

ESA Top News: ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels the debate on the origin of our planet's oceans.

Even as it struggles to align its military space goals with a 2015 budget that has not been fully secured, the French Defense Ministry has tapped Airbus and Thales for initial work on France's first operational eavesdrop...

WASHINGTON -- NASA will receive $18 billion for 2015, more than a half a billion dollars above the Obama administration's original request, under the terms of an omnibus spending bill released late Dec. 9. The appropriat...

NASA's "flying saucer" (aka Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project, or LDSD for short) successfully flew a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space in late June from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile ...

The motivation behind the redesign was simple, even if the project was anything but. First and foremost, we've set out to put our award-winning editorial content -- news, opinion and a growing number of original videos -...

So you know the Earth is warming up--after all, it's overwhelmingly obvious and the vast majority of climate scientists agree about it. But some people just can't seem to accept that; in the loudest cases they're ideolog...

Here’s the awesome thing about space and social media: in some cases, you can often follow along with a mission almost as soon as the images come to Earth. A group of Canadians is taking that to the next level this mon...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: In March 2015, NASA will launch a new mission to study magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission will peer directly into the heart of this phenomenon that d...

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: New spectacular stargazing sites perfect for astronomy have been identified across the UK, including some of the islands just off the coast of Britain.

Today: Ocular Health: Wilmore set up Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) hardware and software to perform eye exams using the OCT Laptop....

Under a contract valued at about 325 million euros, DGA expects Airbus and Thales to begin work on the CERES electronics-intercept program in March.

Interactions.org News Wire: Last night ICARUS, the world's largest liquid argon neutrino detector, left the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and is now on its way to CERN (Europea...