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Researchers shipped eight colonies of ants to the International Space Station to study their search behavior in microgravity.

Astronomy as a science is pretty tough to define these days. I actually point that out in the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy; if I observe Mars using my backyard telescope I'm doing astronomy, but what if I'm a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded....

Human missions to Mars are possible in the 2030s without significant increases to NASA's current budget, according to an internal Jet Propulsion Laboratory study discussed at a recent closed-door workshop. The post JPL S...

See what's up in the night sky for April 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Don't forget to look skyward in the early hours of the morning tomorrow (April 4), to catch a glimpse of the shortest total lunar eclipse of the century, and the third of a four-eclipse "tetrad" visible from the United S...

A moon-watching small-satellite and a trio of formation-flying cloud monitoring sensors are among the early candidates vying for a shot at $150 million in funding under a NASA Earth Venture competition set to begin this ...

Actor John Travolta will lead a celebration of the first manned moon landing this summer, joining with astronaut Buzz Aldrin to launch a new education initiative. Travolta will host the gala for Aldrin's ShareSpace Found...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / .astroguyz.com) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – April 3, 2015: Lunar Eclipses & Astero...

A massive protostar connects young stars that have spherical winds to those that push through extended columns.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Green as a color can mean animal, vegetable or mineral. It is the stuff of crocodiles, chlorophyll and copper patina, the essence of serpentine or of snakes in the grass, the hue of a glacial lake, a... --

The fourth-annual International Space Apps Challenge takes place worldwide April 10 to 12, and calls on citizen scientists to come up with creative ways to use data to solve global problems.

European governments and Airbus Safran Launchers have reached a tentative agreement on Ariane 6 development funding following an incendiary letter from the company alleging a nearly $1 billion shortfall. The post ESA, In...

NASA is gearing up for its fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge, April 10-12. The event unfolds at more than 135 locations worldwide, including this year's Global Mainstage event in New York featuring NASA as...

Eumetsat will place Meteosat-7 into a retirement orbit in April 2017 by assuring that it retains enough residual fuel to climb several hundred kilometers above the geostationary-orbit belt. The post Aging Meteosat-7 Is L...

The "information loss paradox" in black holes -- a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years -- may not exist. That's what some physicists have argued for years: That black holes are the ultimate vaults, entit...

Are you excited about the upcoming NASA New Horizons flyby to Pluto? Even though the flyby will happen on July 14, 2015, Pluto is getting closer and closer in the spacecraft’s cameras. And there’s lots of science to ...

Medical science and training took a significant portion of the Expedition 43 crew's schedule Thursday. The newest three crew members are getting used to their new home on orbit. Finally, the International Space Station b...

Europe's Rosetta comet-chaser satellite has apparently survived a dangerously close flyby of Comet 67P, which it is accompanying toward the sun, despite a dazzling of its star trackers by cometary debris and a subsequent...

MESSENGER mission controllers conducted a maneuver yesterday to raise the spacecraft's minimum altitude sufficiently to extend orbital operations and further delay the probe's inevitable impact onto Mercury's surface....

NASA Space Launch System first flight, names Exploration Mission-1, will not carry humans but will carry the Orion Spacecraft on a swing around the Moon.