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A newly passed bill sets the stage for the future of the private spaceflight industry, and could have big implications for asteroid mining --

Get ready, set, go! As the thousands of runners start the London Marathon in April, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will run the full 42 km distance on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.

Paul McNamara, ESA LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist, explains gravitational waves. ESA's LISA Pathfinder lifted off 3 December on a Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its way to demonstrate...

New Horizons:

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Mark Jackson is president of Fiat Physica, a crowdfunding platform exclusively for space and astronomy outreach and research. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @Morgan...

New Horizons:

Observers often say the moon looks larger when it is just coming over the horizon. Is this some celestial effect, or only in the mind of the observer?

NASA Television will provide complete coverage Friday, Dec. 11 of the departure of three crew members from the International Space Station and their return to Earth beginning at 1 a.m. EST.

Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)....

There was a time when you could find spacecraft clean rooms in two sizes - - big and bigger....

An Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship bound for the International Space Station will get a second chance to launch today (Dec. 4) after bad weather foiled an attempted liftoff yesterday.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Language in a new commercial space law that grants companies rights to resources they extract from asteroids and other solar system bodies provides them with some certainty, but they acknowledge that the law is likely no...

For the second day in a row, foul weather threatens to stall a critical space station delivery for NASA.

Five years after a failed insertion into planet's orbit, Akatsuki tries again --

Five years after a failed insertion into planet's orbit, Akatsuki tries again --

We are living in a relatively quiet period in the history of the Universe. Ten billion years ago, long before the Sun and Earth were formed, areas of the Universe were inhabited by monstrous galaxies with star formation ...

Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big bang, 13.8 billion ...

Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The young galaxies seem to reside at the junction of gigantic filament...

Britain's Royal Mail has turned to NASA for help after a five-year-old boy wrote in asking how much it would cost to post a letter to Mars.