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The six astronauts onboard the International Space Station will ring in the New Year floating 240 miles above the Earth.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has been working well into its golden years - after nearly 11 years roaming the Red Planet, it has survived more than 40 times past its warranty. But now, this trusty veteran explorer is exp...

2014 was a banner year the Russian Space Agency, with a record-setting fourteen launches of the next generation unmanned Soyuz-2 rocket. A number of other firsts took place in the course of the year as well, cementing th...

When I first heard we were all going to float in the air at 9:47 a.m. PST on January 4th, 2015 I laughed, figuring this latest Internet rumor would prove too silly to spread very far. Boy, was I wrong. This week the bogu...

Astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. This discovery clar...

View of triangle-shaped cleat taped on the bottom of a shoe of a Skylab 4 crew member....

International Space Station Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts send Happy New Year wishes to the everyone on Earth as they get ready to start 2015 on orbit....

True color image over northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet. Note the large amount of smog/pollution over India relative to Tibet, and how the mountains keep it all localized....

This true-color image shows hole-punch and canal clouds off the coast of Florida, as observed on December 12, 2014, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite....

I know I just posted a really beautiful image of a spiral galaxy by Adam Block recently, but right after that he sent me another photo that got me thinking, and I figure that's worth sharing. Also, who doesn't want to st...

Is dark matter the "operating system" of the Universe? Tom Broadhurst, an Ikerbasque researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Theoretical Physics, thinks it is. He has participated alongside scientists of the National T...

As we say goodbye to 2014 and ring in New Year 2015, the Expedition 42 crew living and working aboard the International Space Station enjoy the new gallery of images they've sent back of 'Our Beautiful Earth.' The curren...

Research teams are failing to confirm plumes of water vapor reported a year ago to have been spewing about 200 kilometers into space from Europa's south pole --

Science@NASA: New research shows that terrestrial gamma-ray flashes arise from an unexpected diversity of thunderstorms storms and may be more common than previously thought.

The company hopes to send up a Falcon 9 rocket and then safely land the discarded first stage for reuse. Lee Billings reports --

The company hopes to send up a Falcon 9 rocket and then safely land the discarded first stage for reuse. Lee Billings reports --

The company hopes to send up a Falcon 9 rocket and then safely land the discarded first stage for re-use. Lee Billings reports. --