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A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York highlights extreme examples of life on Earth, and what they may tell us about life elsewhere in the universe.

A company called Tethers Unlimited is developing an in-space manufacturing system called "SpiderFab," which would use arachnidlike robots to put together large objects in orbit or beyond.

A Japanese spacecraft will get a second chance to orbit Venus this December, five years after zooming past the planet on its first attempt. The Akatsuki probe will try again on Dec. 7.

Training an astronaut is no easy task. Astronauts go through years of rigorous technical, health and safety training to learn simple and complex tasks for a typical four to six month mission. They develop skills in syste...

NASA's iconic Apollo moon landing mission patches come to life in a new video created by a professional animator. Cincinnati-based artist Neil Smith revealed his versions of the historic emblems in an animated clip poste...

A fan's yearlong mission to gain support for his LEGO version of the International Space Station is complete. Christoph Ruge's model of the orbiting outpost recorded its 10,000th vote after being posted to the LEGO Ideas...

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Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity completely by accident when he exposed a chunk of uranium to a photographic plate. This opened up a whole new field of research to uncover the source of the mysterious ene...

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Thanks to instruments on board NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft, which will fly by Pluto this summer, scientists are able to get an unprecedented look at the space weather near the dwarf planet.

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In late March, three astronauts thundered into space on board a Soyuz rocket. One will come back six months later; the other two will stay on board the International Space Station for a full year. Why? Well, let me tell ...

This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is asking people around the world to share pictures and videos on social media that show there is no place like home - planet Earth.

The public has until Friday, April 24 to help name new features on Pluto and its orbiting satellites as they are discovered by NASA's New Horizons mission.

More than 30 high school, college and university teams will launch student-built rockets during the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event April 10-11 near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Astronomers have long puzzled over the appearance of supernovae that detonate out in the dark space - rather than within a host galaxy. Various theories have been proposed, the most plausible is that they might be hyperv...

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From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (stationcdrkelly on Instagram) took this photograph and posted it to social media on April 6, 2015....

An array of celestial flowers is blooming in this amazing panorama by sky photographer Terry Hancock.

This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is asking people around the world to share pictures and videos on social media that show there is no place like home planet Earth....

On Saturday, Apr. 4, 2015, the Moon very briefly slipped into the Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse. It was the shortest total eclipse this century, with totality lasting just under five minutes. I saw lots ...