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Coming soon for the first time in more than 30 years: you'll be able to witness a supermoon in combination with a lunar eclipse.

Two crewmembers aboard the International Space Station are entering rarely tread territory as they pass the six-month mark in a yearlong stay in orbit that will help scientists understand how humans might cope with a jou...

Demonstrating one small step for rover operations, a European astronaut successfully maneuvered a machine on Earth in precision operations from his perch 250 miles (400 kilometers) high on the International Space Station...

On Sept. 13, 2015, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA--discovered its 3,000th comet, cementing its standing as the greatest comet finder of all time. Prior to th...

By measuring with exquisite precision the tiny wobbles of Saturn's moon Enceladus - whose cosmic quavers are detectable only in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft - Cornell University researchers h...

NASA officials will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 16 to discuss the agency's progress on the Orion spacecraft, which will carry humans on missions into deep space.

Earth's gravity has influenced the orientation of thousands of faults that form in the lunar surface as the moon shrinks, according to new results from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. In August, 201...

SpaceX will loft one satellite for the Spanish company Hispasat on its Falcon 9 rocket and launch Saudi Arabia's Arabsat 6A spacecraft on a Falcon Heavy. The launches will take place from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air For...

A laser-based instrument for mapping the 3-D structure of Earth's forests has passed a major milestone toward deployment on the International Space Station (ISS). The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), led b...

According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began...

Earth's gravity has influenced the orientation of thousands of faults that form in the lunar surface as the moon shrinks, according to new results from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft....

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos leads Blue Origin, a commercial aerospace firm that hopes to send people on suborbital and orbital space trips.

NASA has awarded AWD Management Services, Inc., of Lawrenceville, Georgia, a five-year contract to provide administrative and secretarial support services at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston.

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Blue Origin announced Sept. 15 that it will establish a manufacturing facility and launch site at Cape Canaveral for its planned orbital launch vehicle, which the company expects to start launching by 2020. SpaceNews.com

The NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been detecting icy space rocks for two decades. The 3000th new observation came on September 13th, 2015.

Abigail Harrison, known on social media as 'Astronaut Abby,' has launched The Mars Generation, a nonprofit organization to get people excited again about space exploration.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began.

We might see the danger of asteroid impact, fatalistically, as a matter of chance, like predicting the weather a decade hence. However, this is not so: we should be able to identify and track essentially all of the bodie...

The commercial space race got a little more crowded Tuesday when the aerospace company Blue Origin, headed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, said it will begin launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this decade.

NASA has awarded the Mechanical Integrated Services and Technology contract to ATA Aerospace, Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for mechanical engineering and related services at the agency's Goddard Space Flight...