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On June 28, 2015, the private spaceflight company SpaceX will attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform after launching the seventh Dragon cargo mission for NASA. See photos from the Commercial Resupply Se...

SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion NASA contract to fly at least 12 unmanned unmanned runs to the space station; the previous six flights had all been successful --

The three crewmembers currently aboard the International Space Station are in no danger of running out of crucial supplies despite today's failure of a SpaceX cargo mission to the orbiting lab, NASA officials said.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship loaded with critical supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) were destroyed by a catastrophic explosion starting approximately 148 se...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the loss Sunday of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded about 2 minutes and 20 seconds after launch this morning. No people were onboard; it was an uncrewed resupply mission. The cause is n...

An exoplanet apparently possesses a huge cometlike tail, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped amazing images of Pluto and a solar storm supercharged northern lights displays. Here's a look at Space.com's top stories of...

From the best-ever looks at Pluto and its largest moon Charon to gorgeous views of a supercharged northern lights display, don't miss these amazing space images.

Today's SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ended in failure when the Falcon 9 rocket appeared to suffer an anomaly shortly before the first stage engines shut down....

"The Planck data confirm the basic predictions that quantum fluctuations are at the origin of all structures in the Universe," said Jean-Loup Puget, Principal Investigator for the HFI-instrument on the Planck satellite. ...

The latest Dragon spacecraft cargo run to the International Space Station blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 28th, 2015 and exploded during flight.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffered a failure about two minutes after liftoff June 28 on a mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. The post UPDATED | SpaceX Falcon 9 Fails During ISS Cargo Launch appea...

If you've ever struggled to identify Saturn in the night sky, be sure to look toward the horizon just after sunset tonight (June 28) see this often hard-to-spot planet.

Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source....

California may be about to pass a law that only allows parents to opt their public-school-attending children out of vaccines for medical reasons. Personal or religious objections will no longer be accepted. This bill, SB...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – With launch less than a day away for SpaceX's seventh commercial resupply mission carrying a two ton payload of critical science and cargo for the future buildup of human spaceflight to the I...