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The rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 11th, 2014. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission will study solar wind in real-time and will provide Earth an early solar storm warn...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) beamed back its first data in June 2010, nearly 5 years later its still going strong with over 2 million images. This time-lapse shows multiple wavelength images captured by the pr...

A pint-sized Japanese robot that became the first android to converse with an astronaut in space has returned to Earth after 18 months in orbit, project organisers said Thursday.

Virgin Galactic announced Feb. 12 that the company is opening a new facility in Long Beach, California, devoted to development of its small satellite launch vehicle. The post Virgin Galactic Opens LauncherOne Facility in...

Ideas about directing evolution of life forms on Earth and finding life on other planets are rapidly morphing from science-fiction fantasy into mainstream science, says David Lynn, a chemist at Emory University."

The new Pluto-Charon video was shot by NASA's New Horizons probe from Jan. 25 to Jan. 31, as the spacecraft gears up for its epic Pluto encounter this July.

The U.S. Air Force is contemplating an expanded role for the rapid-response space development shop it proposed shuttering as recently as last year, but the service has yet to identify how it plans to fund the office beyo...

Robert R. Cleave has been named vice president of new business and advanced programs for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space. The post Robert Cleave Named VP for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space appeared first on SpaceNews....

A European spacecraft orbiting a comet continues to beam incredible photos of the icy, dusty cosmic body back to Earth.

NASA Breaking News: Two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station's Expedition 42 crew will venture outside the orbital complex on Friday, Feb. 20; Tuesday, Feb. 24; and Sunday, March 1. They will prepare cabl...

A SpaceX rocket launching the spaceflight company's first mission to deep space came in for a smooth landing in the ocean after the launch Wednesday (Feb. 11), as another piece of the rocket captured an incredible view o...

NASA's New Horizon probe watched Charon and Pluto orbit a common center of mass that lies outside either body. Each full revolution takes 6.4 Earth days. The first image was snapped 126 million miles out; the last was ~5...

It's been more than 40 years since astronauts returned the last Apollo samples from the moon, and since then those samples have undergone some of the most extensive and comprehensive analysis of any geological collection...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, rises in the background as the countdown clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florid...

During 10 years of discovery, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pulled back the smoggy veil that obscures the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon....

History records that 88 rockets launched to space in 1991. That count, it would seem, is off by one. The first model rocket to reach space did so in April 1991. Now, almost 25 years later, it has landed at The Museum of ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Views of Saturn's hazy moon Titan now appear much sharper, thanks to a technique that greatly improves radar images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

A European cargo ship is set to depart the International Space Station this weekend. But it will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up the next day, skipping a special descent test because of a problem.

Because the debris fields of exploded stars, known as supernova remnants, are very hot, energetic, and glow brightly in X-ray light, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has proven to be a valuable tool in studying them. The...

Less than two weeks after the head of NASA said he hoped commercial crew vehicles would allow NASA to stop paying for Soyuz flights to and from the International Space Station after 2017, the agency revealed plans to pro...

ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg sees no reason to question his company's strategy of putting a handful of half-billion-dollar Ka-band satellites in geostationary orbit for Internet delivery despite the hoopla surrounding Google...

The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame will honor four space shuttle astronauts this spring as it marks 25 years since its founding. Rhea Seddon, John Grunsfeld, Steve Lindsey and Kent Rominger will be enshrined on May 30 at th...