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The U.S. Air Force has certified SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to launch military satellites, formally establishing a competitor to United Launch Alliance. The post SpaceX Falcon 9 Certified for Military Launches appeared fir...

On March 28th, 2015, the Soyuz TMA-16M (Expedition 43) mission docked with the ISS. A camera aboard the spacecraft captured the rendezvous and docking.

Built to look for gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space itself that were predicted by Einstein in 1916, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is the most ambitious project ever ...

NASA's New Horizons probe, which will make the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, captured the images with its long-range camera from May 8 through May 12, when the spacecraft was a bit less than 50 million miles from...

This image of the Bubble Nebula was taken by astrophotographer Jaspal Chadha from London.

The U.S. Air Force has certified SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to launch military satellites, completing a nearly two-year process and establishing a competitor to United Launch Alliance in the national security marketplace.

Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016....

The jet of shredded matter blasting from elliptical galaxy NGC 3862's supermassive black hole is moving at more than 98% the speed of light.

The U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday that they have certified SpaceX to launch the nations critical and highly valuable national security satellites on the firms Falcon 9 rocket, thereby breaking the decade old launch mo...

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Orbiting spacecraft of Mars have imaged over the past several years dark, finger-like features - now called 'recurring slope lineae' - or RSL for Martian short-hand. These dark flows have been observed at low and middle ...

NASA has taken another step toward returning America's ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017.

Scientists using several telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, found evidence that a planet in an ancient cluster of stars on the edge of the Milky Way drifted too close to a white dwarf star and was ri...

Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.

NASA astronaut and veteran spacewalker Mike Foreman is available to discuss with media the dramatic history and exciting future of spacewalking live via satellite from the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Sp...

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The House Armed Services Committee wants to quickly resurrect a shelved U.S. Missile Defense Agency concept to place several miniaturized kill vehicles atop a single interceptor to address a key weakness in the current U...

The Canadarm2 remote manipulator was used to transfer the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) to the forward port of the Tranquility Module. The shift was necessary to free up the port for commercial crew use.

On Tuesday, NASA announced the scientific research instruments that will be installed on board the 2020s mission headed for Jupiter's moon Europa. The moon has a thick ice shell covering an undersurface ocean, and there'...

"It was known that quantum entanglement is related to deep issues in the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics, such as the black hole information paradox and the firewall paradox," says Hirosi Ooguri, ...

Arab nations are willing to cede to terrestrial mobile telecommunications operators some of the spectrum now reserved for satellite links at an upcoming meeting of global regulators, the chairman of the regional grouping...

A cargo module is getting ready to be relocated from the Unity module to the Tranquility module Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, the crew also conducted science, health checks and Japanese robotics work....