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The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes. After more than 10 years traveling in space, nearly four of those orbiting Mercury, the spacecraft has expended most of its propellant and was on course to impac...

Mars, like Earth, experiences "macroweather" -- atmospheric effects that lie in between short-term weather and long-term climate. The discovery could shed light on the atmospheres of Earth and other planets in the solar ...

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies....

While scientists believe that at one time, billions of years ago, Mars had an atmosphere similar to Earth’s and was covered with flowing water, the reality today is quite different. In fact, the surface of Mars is so h...

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

Russia's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine and the subsequent slide in its relations with the West set the stage for a long-running drama that culminated in a congressional ban on future U.S. government use of t...

NASA Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our Home Planet and the Distant Universe, Tests Technologies and Improves the Skies Above in 2014. In 2014, NASA took significant steps, tested cutting-edge technologie...

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European Space Agency Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this beautiful image of the Earth from the International Space Station on 9 December 2014....

I do love time-lapse animations of the Earth seen from the International Space Station, and if you do too, this is your lucky week: No fewer than three astonishing videos have been released in the past few days, and all ...

Without an image of a black hole , no one has been able to confirm that black holes even exist, says Sheperd Doeleman, assistant director of the Haystack Observatory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Once a...