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Two ringlike structures of stars wrapping around the Milky Way's outer disk now appear to belong to the disk itself. The results show that the disk is actually rippled and about 60 percent larger than previously thought.

Mice zapped with cosmic rays can incur brain damage, suggesting that astronauts' mental performance could suffer over time on deep-space missions to Mars and beyond, researchers say.

At a panel discussion Thursday (April 30) at New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, scientists discussed how much Hubble has allowed humans to see, and the possibilities for the telescopes' successor, scheduled to ...

Dragon is scheduled to lift off at 7 a.m. EDT Wednesday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to see how the capsule performs in the event of a problem during launch. You can watch the unmanned test live here o...

NASA has successfully tested electromagnetic propulsion in a hard vacuum for the first time.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Monday the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next director of the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, effective immediately.

Sparks flew on Capitol Hill where a NASA authorization bill that recommends deep cuts for Earth science made it out of a sharply divided committee on a party line vote.

The Space Exploration, Development, and Settlement Act of 2015, drafted by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), would mark the second time in the last three decades that Congress has directed NASA to support efforts for hum...

The cost of the U.S. Air Force's next-generation positioning, navigation and timing satellite constellation and its associated ground network has grown by $1.1 billion in the last 12 months. The post GPS 3 Sat, Ground Se...

A Canadian company is targeting commercial and government markets with a proposed constellation of 40 low Earth orbiting satellites designed to keep tabs on the environment both in space and on the ground. The post Plann...

'Star Trek' actress Grace Lee Whitney -- who played Janice Rand, yeoman to Captain Kirk -- has died at age 85.

An awesome WIRED video smashes a giant LEGO Super Star Destroyer to bits in a slow-motion video, and actor Tim Russ of Star Trek: Voyager explains 'Star Wars' for May the Fourth.

The creator of the Ansari X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne shares how a couple of bicycle shop owners (Wright Brothers) inspired Space exploration, and how the Apollo program inspired private space sector growth.

The first Italian woman in space is now the world's first orbiting barista.

On April 14, 2015, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with supplies for the astronauts on the International Space Station (this was before the more recent loss of the Russian Progress capsule). After its primary job of lo...

SERVIR, a joint development initiative of NASA and USAID, is working to help Nepal recover from the earthquake that struck on April 25, 2015....

A recent NASA inspector general's report is the latest reminder that NASA's longstanding issue with excess infrastructure, much of it built decades ago as part of the agency's mobilization to land astronauts on the moon,...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Friday, May 8 to participate in a ceremony recognizing Langley's decades of contributions to improving helicopters and oth...

The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples. The research, conducted by an inte...

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

Can you remember back to your first love? The one that left you in tears, wondering what ever caused such a disaster. Well, that feeling might come back to you if you read Michael Carroll’s “The Seventh Landing.” F...

The constellation of Cygnus is one of the most recognisable in the northern hemisphere. During the summer months, the stars of its long neck stretch along the Milky Way and its wings sweep from side to side....