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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says he's settling into his epic yearlong mission to the International Space Station, thanks in small part to the 'ISSPresso' coffee machine that arrived at the orbiting lab last month.

On April 25, 2015, the Earth moved violently in Nepal. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people, injured at least 19,000, and displaced hundreds of thousands in cities and villages near the Himalayas....

As dark matter circles around a black hole, it might create a gamma-ray signal that could be detectable from Earth. A visible signal from the otherwise-invisible stuff would be a major breakthrough in the study of this m...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in SPACE.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in April 2015.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Orbits of 74 small extrasolar planets are found to be close to circular, in contrast to previous measurements of massive exoplanets. The results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal are obtained by the SAC resea...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledgling white dwarf stars beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration from the crowded center of an ancient star ...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

NCCR PlanetS: Artist's impression of 51pegb. (Credit ESO) 51pegB: 20 years after its discovery, astronomers have managed to obtain its spectrum. Remarkable success of ...The post The spectrum of 51pegB 20 years after app...

If you're lacking inspiration in life, sometimes it's worth just browsing images taken from space. A random tweet, a click, a scroll, and then I saw this and knew I had to share it with everyone, because, sigh. Wow. That...

Russia's space officials on Thursday rushed to find a replacement for British singer Sarah Brightman after she pulled out as the next space tourist four months ahead of her planned trip.

Singer Sarah Brightman abruptly canceled her plans May 13 to travel to the International Space Station later this year as a space tourist on a Soyuz flight. The post Sarah Brightman Postpones Trip To Space Station appear...

The House Armed Services Committee said $220 million should go strictly to development of a "rocket propulsion system, and the necessary interfaces to the launch vehicle, to replace non-allied space launch engines." The ...

A House appropriations subcommittee approved a spending bill May 14 that fully funds the Obama administration's overall request for NASA, but cuts funding from commercial crew and space technology and adds it to the Spac...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A dense cloud of gas that astronomers are calling a 'cosmic dinosaur egg' appears to be on the cusp of birthing millions of stars. This may be the youngest example of an object called a globular cluster.

For centuries, people have imagined the possibility of life on Mars. But long-held dreams that Martians could be invaders of Earth, or little green men, or civilized superbeings, all have been undercut by missions to our...

The competition appears to be SpaceX's first chance to break into the national security launch market. The post U.S. Air Force To Solicit Bids for GPS 3 Launch appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

The U.S. Defense Department is suggesting that the May 2013 launch of a Chinese rocket that it branded at the time as suspicious was a test of a technology designed to counter or destroy satellites in geosynchronous orbi...

The discovery of a 'left-handed' magnetic field that pervades the universe could help explain a long standing mystery - the absence of cosmic antimatter. Planets, stars, gas and dust are almost entirely made up of 'norma...