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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program recently selected several concepts for further study including the Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS), an electric solar sail concept....

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Signs indicate that they, like the obje...

The Earth's magnetic field - known as the "magnetosphere" - protects our atmosphere from the "solar wind." That's the constant stream of charged particles flowing outward from the sun. When the magnetosphere shields Eart...

India's space agency has released a spectacular new batch of images taken by everyone's favorite MOM – the Mars Orbiter Mission – the nation's first probe ever dispatched to the Red Planet and which achieved orbit ne...

"Star Wars"-themed lands will be added to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts -- located in Anaheim, California, and Orlando, Florida, respectively -- Walt Disney Co. representatives announced at the D23 Expo 20...

After nearly 20 years gazing at the sun, the SOHO spacecraft is about to spy its 3,000th comet.

Bow, arrow, milk ladle or teapot -- the constellation called the Archer appears as many things besides, and you can find it down near the southern horizon this week.

The moon's thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow....

The moon's thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow. While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's L...

Solar flare experts from around the world gathered at NJIT last week to share the latest research on the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation and charged particles that burst into space during the Sun's m...

This stunning image of a purple and gold aurora was taken by Jason Matias at the Wild Horses Monument on the Columbia River Gorge in Washington.

Astronaut Scott Kelly's imagery of Earth and Space from the International Space Station has been nothing short of extraordinary. They've been posted to his Facebook page, with personalized short descriptions since the be...

Forty-five years ago today (Aug. 17), the then-Soviet Union launched Venera 7, a spacecraft that would eventually become the first probe ever to send data from the surface of Venus, if only for a few brief minutes.

After two giant explosions in Tianjin, a black plume of smoke snaked over China's Bohai Sea.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are testing delivery drones that could make transporting medical samples more efficient in developing countries with unreliable infrastructure.

The spacecraft makes one last close flyby of Saturn's pockmarked moon Dione August 17, in search of direct evidence that the moon is geologically alive and active --

Neutron stars are some of the strangest objects in the universe. This video describes that it would be like to live on one, and what horrible things they would do to you!

Space enthusiasts and sci-fi fans, rejoice: The space elevator may be one step closer to reality. A Canadian space company has been awarded a patent for a space elevator that would reach 12 miles (20 kilometers) above th...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. NASA ordered two more cargo deliveries to the International Space Station from Orbital ATK under a 2008 Commercial Resupply S...

While not bursting with activity like its system satellite Enceladus, the surface of Dione is definitely not boring....

OK, I can't resist: Above is another beautiful Perseid meteor photo, taken by Göran Strand in Sweden on Thursday. I love the colors in this one! In the original shot, you can see the stars of the Big Dipper above it, to...

NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, on exhibit in Los Angeles since 2012, has been called back into service -- or rather, parts of it have -- for the benefit of the International Space Station. NASA will remove four ...