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Russia's Progress 60 freighter docked with the orbiting lab at 3:11 a.m. EDT (0711 GMT) Sunday, successfully delivering more than 6,100 lbs. (2,770 kilograms) of food, water, fuel and other supplies.

The Sahara desert's sandy and rocky terrain in central Algeria, captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite in its first-ever scan of Earth on 27 June 2015....

The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anomaly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss of communication with Earth. Communication has since been reestablished and the spacecraft is healthy.

With each passing day, mankind gets a better look at Pluto. And each day, Pluto is showing mankind it has a lot to learn.

Over three tons of much needed supplies and equipment finally reached the crew living aboard the International Space Station (ISS), when an unmanned and highly anticipated Russian Progress cargo ship successfully docked ...

A satellite experiment to study cosmic rays and the solar wind that was devised by school students is now successfully collecting data in space. LUCID, the Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector, uses particle de...

Coronal mass ejections (CME), billion-tonne solar plasma eruptions moving towards the Earth at up to 2500 kilometres per second, can cause extensive and expensive disruption by damaging power, satellite and communication...

An unmanned Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday following a string of failed attempts to resupply the orbital laboratory.

Continuing the countdown to Galaxy Zoo’s 8th birthday, below are 8 of the most-commented-on galaxies in the active Galaxy Zoo. They range near (in astronomical terms) and far, from gorgeous disks to space-warping group...

Now available is the July 1, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Mike Gold (Bigelow Aerospace) who discussed "Bigelow Aerospace's Past Accomplishments, Present Activities, and Fu...

Smoke from Alaska and Canada Fires Dives into the Continental U.S....

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suffered an anomaly July 4 that put the spacecraft into a protective safe mode less than ten days before its flyby of Pluto, but project scientists are confident the spacecraft will resume ...

A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early July 5, easing concerns about supplying the station after a string of recent cargo mission failures. The post Progress Arrives At Spac...

The probe's handlers lost contact with New Horizons at 1:54 p.m. EDT (1754 GMT) Saturday (July 4) but were able to restore communications at 3:15 p.m. EDT (1915 GMT).

(Durham University) Astronomers have found evidence for a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the universe.

NASA's two lost Shuttle crews from the searing Challenger and Columbia accidents are now memorialized in the newly opened, permanent and highly emotional "Forever Remembered" tribute display at the Kennedy Space Center V...

Nova Stars are essentially giant fusion reactions occurring in the vacuum of space....