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After a brilliant first test flight, and historic Pacific Ocean splashdown and recovery on Dec. 5, 2014, NASA's Orion spacecraft was brought onshore inside the USS Anchorage to the US Naval Base San Diego and has now bee...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The projected price tag for GPS 3's ground system, known as the Operational Control System, or OCX, has nearly doubled since Raytheon was awarded the contract in 2010. The post Acquisition Czar Orders “Deep Dive” int...

Where did all of our water come from? What might seem like a simple question has challenged and intrigued planetary scientists for decades. So results just released by Rosetta mission scientists have been much anticipate...

New research published today in the journal Physical Review Letters describes how recreating isotopes that occur when a star explodes, can help physicists understand where life-supporting elements may be found in space.

Britain at the ISS, Germany in the Italian-led Vega program, and ESA lending a hand to Intelsat and Inmarsat were among the surprises coming out of Luxembourg. The post ESA Ministerial Produces a Few Surprises appeared f...

Mars today is a planet that appears to be mostly shaped by wind, but that wasn’t always the case. A new map adds information to the hypothesis that “marsquakes” affected at least a part of the planet’s vast canyo...

A new laser link with the International Space Station could do what optical fiber has done for internet access on Earth -- by turning orbital communications from painfully slow dial-up to blazing-fast broadband.

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.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: High-resolution geological mapping based on images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests lakes and "marsquakes" were part of the vast Valles Marineris canyon...

NASA is "all about that space, 'bout that space (space travel)" in a new music video recently released by the space agency.

Calling the move "scandalous, unacceptable," a French senator publicly upbraided Airbus Defence and Space for even thinking about launching EDRS-C on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The post Airbus Upbraided at Home for Shoppi...

The gargantuan glowing loops that quiver and dance at the Sun's surface are absolutely mesmerizing. If you've never seen them up close and personal, make sure to check out the videos a little lower down in this post. But...

Tropical Cyclone Bakung is moving in a westerly direction over the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the sea storm....

Where did Earth's water come from? Comets? Asteroids? New data from the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows that comets -- once thought responsible for seeding Earth with water -- might not ...

The spectacular Geminid Meteor shower hits peak activity this weekend. Though competing with some unfortunate moonlight, the shower still should make for a must-see astronomical event.

Astronomers could soon be able to find rocky planets stretched out by the gravity of the stars they orbit, according to a group of researchers in the United States. The team, led by Prabal Saxena of George Mason Universi...

This image from Japan's ALOS satellite was captured over part of southern Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia....

A couple of months ago, the sun sported the largest sunspot we've seen in the last 24 years. This monstrous spot, visible to the naked eye (that is, without magnification, but with protective eyewear... --

Explore an interactive graphic showing where on the sun flares of different classes have been sighted over the years --

When you're flying above Earth in a spaceship or space station, taking a clear picture below is more than a point-and-shoot job. As NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains in this video, you need to account for the motion of ...

If all goes according to plan, Dragon will blast off atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:20 p.m. EST (1820 GMT) on Dec. 19 and arrive at the orbiting lab two days later.