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Exactly five years to the day after Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft sped past Venus without entering orbit, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will try again Dec. 7 to put the probe into orbit around the second planet fr...

See the highlights of recent research conducted on the International Space Station during February....

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will attempt the ultimate space double-header today (Feb. 8) with the launch of a space weather observatory followed by an ambitious rocket landing attempt on a floating platform in...

The Expedition 42 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) continues to delight us with stunning views of 'Our Beautiful Earth from Space.' Here's a collection of a few of the newest sunrises, auroras, landscape...

A groundswell of interest in large constellations of small satellites, some backed by financial heavyweights, has buoyed the hopes of aspiring small rocket makers. The post Small Rocket Startups Eye Mega-constellation Op...

Ron Garan used to be an astronaut. Now he helps people in remote African communities obtain fresh drinking water. Yet he still has his head back amongst the stars. How he came to this point is the subject of his...

Along a 900-kilometer (560-mile) stretch of Antarctica's Pacific Coast, 18 major volcanoes jut from the ice sheet....

Even if we never learn anything more about Beagle 2's fate, the little mutt may still have something to teach us, provided that people are willing to learn. The post Commentary | What We Can Learn From a Mars Mutt Named ...

In November of 2013, astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes announced the discovery of a far-flun...

NASA Television coverage of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission news briefing on Feb. 7 2015 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

From three moons transiting Jupiter to Pluto and it's moon, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Feb. 8, 2015.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, speaking during his Feb. 2 "State of NASA" address at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the release of President Obama's Fiscal Year 2016 $18.5 billion budget proposal for NASA said...

Tonight, Sunday Feb. 8, 2015 at 23:10 UTC (6:10 p.m. Eastern), SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket into space. There's a lot going on with this launch, so this'll take a moment to explain. First, you can watc...

A $340 million sun-observing spacecraft that was initially dreamed up by former US vice president Al Gore is finally poised to launch Sunday after being kept in storage by NASA for years.