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Goodbye, geysers! NASA engineers have successfully finished anti-geyser testing for the liquid oxygen tank that will help fuel the agency's new rocket, the Space Launch System, on the journey to Mars.

Engineers were preparing for the launch Wednesday of a "space plane" that Europe hopes will help it master a key phase in orbital flight--the ability to return to Earth.

The universe is smiling today -- at least, that's what it looks like in a new space photo that appears to feature a smiling face emerging from the light of the universe.

The House of Representatives passed a NASA authorization bill Feb. 10 that its sponsors acknowledge is "largely identical" to a bill the chamber passed in 2014, hoping its passage sets the stage for work on a more ambiti...

There's a famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet that says "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," and the same now holds true for brave new worlds for humans to explor...

The company had hoped to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a robotic barge as part of its effort to develop fully reusable rockets --

The company had hoped to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a robotic barge as part of its effort to develop fully reusable rockets --

Today: SpaceX-5 Dragon Departure: Today, the crew configured the Dragon/Node-2 vestibule for demate by disconnecting Air Revitalization System (ARS) jumper, both power and data jumpers, and installed the Center Disk Cove...

Early astronomers realized some of the “stars” in the sky were planets in our Solar System, and really, only then did we realize Earth is a planet too. Now, we’re finding planets around other stars, and thanks to t...

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This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation. This finding supports model predictions about how two- and three-star systems f...

Relive IXV's 100 minute reentry success from liftoff at Europe's Spaceport to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on 11 February

ESA Top News: Relive IXV's 100 minute reentry success from liftoff at Europe's Spaceport to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on 11 February

Canada is shuttering a critical teaching observatory in eastern North America where the first dark skies reserve was created, its director told AFP on Wednesday.

Job done, IXV floats in the Pacific Ocean awaiting the Nos Aries recovery ship that will hoist it on board for its journey back to Europe for further analysis

MOAR rockets! As a followup to our recent post about the Rockets of the World (to scale), here’s another graphic posted on imgur, created by Alex Brown. While the earlier graphic only included rockets that had flown, t...

On March 18th, 1965, Alexey Leonov stepped out of his Voskhod 2 spacecraft to become the first man to complete an extra vehicular activity (EVA) in space.

Europe on Wednesday said it successfully launched and brought back to Earth a prototype space plane in a strategy to join an elite club of space powers.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Two JPL researchers have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional distinction for engineers.

Four infant star siblings are gestating in the belly of a gas cloud, adding support to the theory that most stars are born with multiple siblings.

For the first time, astronomers have caught a multiple-star system in the beginning stages of its formation, and their direct observations of this process give strong support to one of several suggested pathways to produ...

"Dark matter is there," says says Paolo Zuccon, an assistant professor of physics at MIT. "We just don't know what it is. AMS has the possibility to shine a light on its features. We see some hint now, and it...