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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The unplanned 'Happy Marriage' of United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Orbital ATK is set to give birth Sunday, Dec. 6, to a Cygnus cargo freighter bound for the International Space Station (ISS)...

Today, as part of the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, "Action Day" participants will view the video Call to Earth - A Message from the World's Astronauts, featuring International Space Station Comma...

We know of about two dozen runaway stars, and have even found one runaway star cluster escaping its galaxy forever. As of this past June, astronomers have spotted 11 runaway galaxies that have been flung out of their hom...

A Dec. 2 event with the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, featured a live chat with NASA's Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren from onboard the International Space Station....

NASA just released new photos of Pluto taken from the closest approach of the New Horizons spacecraft, and they are likely to be the highest resolution images we'll see of the icy world's surface! These were taken from a...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission's ''T-114'' flyby on Nov. 13, 2015....

Next Monday, December 7, the planet Venus will do a vanishing act behind the moon.

In the Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, engineers closed the hatch on the Orbital ATK CRS-4 spacecraft....

Orbital ATK will attempt to make it third time lucky Saturday in the launch of its Cygnus space cargo ship after high winds off Florida forced a second postponement in as many days.

A Virgin Atlantic 747-400 aircraft, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, has been transferred to Virgin Galactic and will be retro-fitted to carry the 'LauncherOne" small satellite launch service.

On Dec. 4, the bread loaf-sized Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer, or MinXSS, CubeSat is scheduled to rocket to space alongside thousands of pounds of supplies and science experiments destined for the International Spac...

It's amazing that we've come such a long way in our exploration of the Pluto system, and it's only been five months since the close flyby of New Horizons. From the exceptionally young ice-covered plain informally named T...

The New Horizons spacecraft is already 209,437,000 km (130,138,000 miles) past Pluto (as of Dec. 4, 2015), making it 5,226,950,000 km (3,247,880,000 miles) from Earth. So, yes, it's way out there. Recently, it took the c...

The spectacular photos, which were captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its Pluto flyby on July 14, show close-up views of the dwarf planet's towering water-ice mountains and vast plains.

Mountains, craters and plains of the icy dwarf planet have been resolved in detail never before seen: 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel.

Students from seven high schools in Boston will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station at 9:45 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call...

Mars appears quite dim to skywatchers this month, but the Red Planet will brighten up before spring arrives

A quest to find ripples in space-time took a major step forward this week when the European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission into space.

Researchers from China have come up with an idea for a space engine that basically eats space junk and turns that space junk into fuel, boosting the engine forward.

A Japanese spacecraft buzzed Earth on Thursday (Dec. 3) on its way to meet an asteroid in a few years.