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Today's launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 to the International Space Station (ISS) on its fifth commercial resupply (CRS-5) was successful. The Dragon spacecraft is safely in orbit heading towards a Monday rendezvous with th...

More than two tons of supplies and NASA science investigations are on the way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft launched Saturday on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from S...

SpaceX successfully launched their commercial Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship on a mission for NASA bound for the space station this morning, Jan. 10, while simultaneously accomplishing a hard landing of the booste...

Plans for the construction of the world's largest digital camera at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have reached a major milestone....

Comet Q2 Lovejoy passed closest to Earth on January 7th and has been putting on a great show this past week. Glowing at magnitude +4 with a bluish coma nearly as big as the Full Moon, the comet’s easy to see with the n...

As Universe Today’s Dave Dickinson described earlier this week not only has Venus returned to the evening sky, but Mercury has climbed up from the horizon to join it. Last night (Jan. 9th) the two planets were separate...

The good news is that this morning, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon capsule on board. It's headed to the space station, loaded with over 2.5 tons of supplies. The not-quite-as-good news is th...

@AstroSamantha: Hello #Netherlands and Rotterdam, where the waters of the Rhein flow into the North Sea....

This photo was taken by the Expedition 6 crew aboard the International Space Station on 26 April 2003. It shows Mapam Lake and atmospheric haze in Nepal....

I've gone something like ten years without thinking of the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"... and then it shows up in my life no less than three times in a couple of months. And here's the weird part: All three of t...

NASA Breaking News: More than two tons of supplies and NASA science investigations are on the way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft launched Saturday on the company's Fa...

SpaceX pulled off another successful launch of supplies to the International Space Station on Saturday, but its revolutionary attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean barge fared less well.

WASHINGTON -- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the international space station early Jan. 10, but an effort to land the rocket's first stage on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean was ...

The SpaceX cargo ship launched to the International Space Station on Jan. 10th, 2014. SpaceX will attempt to land the rocket's first stage on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

The new year is off to a hot start for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). The engine that will drive America's next great rocket to deep space blazed through its first successful test Jan. 9 at the agency's Stennis Space....

NASA Breaking News: The new year is off to a hot start for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). The engine that will drive America's next great rocket to deep space blazed through its first successful test Jan. 9 at the age...

High UV radiation during solar maxima may have degraded expectant mothers' stores of folate, a vitamin essential to development. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

High UV radiation during solar maxima may have degraded expectant mothers' stores of folate, a vitamin essential to development. Christopher Intagliata reports --

Why can't audiences have it all, with scientific plausibility forming the foundation of sci-fi stories?

Excerpt from the novel "Prometheus Rebound" by R.L. Akers.

What may appear at first glance to be an eerie, empty void in an otherwise star-filled scene is really a cloud of cold, dark dust and molecular gas, so dense and opaque that it obscures the distant stars that lie beyond ...