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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti gives a tour of her "bedroom" aboard the International Space Station.

Three space station crew members have returned home to the Earth after spending nearly 200 days off the planet. American Terry Virts, Russian Anton Shkaplerov and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti are back on Eart...

The planet Uranus will slip behind the moon today (June 11) in a celestial event known as an occultation, and you have a chance to watch it live at Slooh.com courtesy of the Slooh Community Observatory.

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the Internatio...

Registration is now open for a November conference that aims to help bring space technologies down to Earth. The first-ever SpaceCom (short for the Space Commerce Conference and Exposition), which runs from Nov. 17 throu...

Russian flight controllers quickly fixed the issue, which posed no threat to the station's six crewmembers and it will not affect plans to return three of these spaceflyers to Earth early Thursday (June 11), NASA officia...

NASA is inviting media to cover New Horizons' historic Pluto flyby in mid-July, including the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laure...

They wouldn't float like balloons or give you the chance to talk in high, squeaky voices, but planets with helium skies may constitute an exotic planetary class in our Milky Way galaxy. Researchers using data from NASA's...

The Planetary Society has roughly a year to digest lessons from its successful but far form perfect solar sail deployment before the 2016 launch of its second LightSail satellite. The post Planetary Society Has a Year To...

Three astronauts landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan June 11, ending their 199-day mission after an unexpected "bonus month" aboard the International Space Station, NASA Television showed. The post Space Trio Make...

Have you ever seen a real asteroid in the sky? This week is an excellent opportunity to see one of the largest asteroids, Pallas, as it reaches opposition to the sun.

The voice of the Apollo moon shots has died.

WASP-33b, an exoplanet 4 1/2 times more massive that Jupiter, has a layer in its atmosphere that absorbs ultraviolet radiation, preventing UV from reaching the surface. Earth has a similar stratospheric UV filter.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b.

As NASA develops a long-term strategy to support human missions to Mars, one think tank is turning its attention to how to make that strategy sustainable into the next presidential administration and beyond. The post Thi...

Singapore and China have agreed to open a center to develop applications for China's Beidou global navigation system and have signed a commercial agreement to create anti-jamming systems to protect Beidou signals, Singap...

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An international crew comprising a Russian cosmonaut, a US astronaut and an Italian astronaut who accomplished a record setting flight for time in space by a female, departed the International Space Station (ISS) earlier...

SyFy new original series "Dark Matter" follow spaceship crewmembers show awaken with no recollection of their pasts.

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The European Space Agency says it may have caught a glimpse of its missing comet lander.

New images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io show "hotspots" happening in different spots on a volcanic lake. Even more surprising given the lake's small size: the images were taken from Earth.