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Last week, NASA's Messenger spacecraft executed the first of a series of engine burns designed to lift the probe's orbit slightly and delay its inevitable impact into Mercury's surface by up to a month.

A Q&A about the first flight test of NASA's Orion capsule with two of the people responsible for the deep-space vehicle's development.

Now available is the March 4, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Robert Hoyt (Tethers Unlimited) who discussed "SpiderFab - Architecture for On-Orbit Manufacture of Large Apertu...

Two spaceflyers blasted off on the first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station and NASA announced its plan to haul a boulder from a near-Earth asteroid to lunar orbit. Here's a look at Space.com's top ...

Talk about out-of-this-world coffee! --

When you watch an episode of Crash Course Astronomy, you no doubt marvel at how clearly cut, professional, and perfect it is. The thing is, what you don't see are the 18 bazillion times I stumble on a word, say things ou...

ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C27, successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1D, the fourth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) today evening (March 28, 2015) from Satish Dhaw...