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ESA's fifth automated cargo ferry completed its mission to the International Space Station today when it reentered the atmosphere and burned up safely over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific Ocean....

Now available is this weeks NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material from the February 11 2015 colloquium. This speaker was Sydney Do (MIT) who discussed "An Independent Assessment of the Technical Feasibi...

The European Space Agency (ESA) on Sunday said it had destroyed its last supply ship to the International Space Station, bringing a seven-year venture to a successful close.

This years group to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame has been announced. Include are: John Grunsfeld, Steven W. Lindsey, Kent V. Rominger and Dr. M. "Rhea" Seddon....

On Feb. 15, 2013, a 66-foot-wide asteroid exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,200 people. Two years later, he origin of the space rock still puzzles scientists.

ESA's fifth automated cargo ferry completed its mission to the International Space Station today when it reentered the atmosphere and burned up safely over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific Ocean.

February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day....

"Just as a fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it lives and swims, so the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains," according to Sir Martin Rees, cosmologist and astrop...

Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's co-author and widow, reflects on the meaning of Voyager's "pale blue dot" image of Earth....

Large, digital surveys of the night sky have revolutionized how astronomy is done. Astronomers are no longer tethered to their telescopes, but instead have access to terabytes of data on hundreds of millions of stars and...

DSCOVR launches this week to headline events Inside KSC! The launch of the NOAA spacecraft was the third of 2015 for Kennedy teams, including CRS-5 and SMAP. Safety and Health Week is personal this year and the Tour de K...

Europe launched a prototype minishuttle on its first space test, SpaceX lofted the DSCOVR space-weather satellite, and scientists questioned whether dark matter is truly "dark." Here are Space.com's picks for the best sp...

Thousands of commercial and spy satellites in orbit present ongoing coordination challenges—but a surprising obstacle is privacy --

(National Radio Astronomy Observatory) An international team of astronomers used ALMA to dissect a cluster of star-forming clouds at the heart of NGC 253, one of the nearest starburst galaxies to the Milky Way.