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The Orbital ATK spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket on Dec. 6th, 2015. It marked the first Cygnus launch since the catastrophic failure that marred its last attempt.

A U.S. shipment of much-needed groceries and other astronaut supplies rocketed toward the International Space Station for the first time in months Sunday, reigniting NASA's commercial delivery service.

The Ross ice shelf, Antarctica's largest ice shelf, as seen from EUMETSAT's Metop-A satellite (02/12/15 10:34 UTC)....

NASA's spirits soared Sunday as weather forecasters offered significantly better odds of launching a rocket with much-needed supplies to the International Space Station.

The New Horizons spacecraft has been slowly sending back all the images and data it gathered during its July flyby of the Pluto system. The latest batch of images to arrive here on Earth contains some of the highest reso...

Tomorrow morning, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, people in the US, Canada, and Central America will see the Moon pass directly in front of Venus, blocking it out. This event -- called an occultation, but you can think of it as a...

A black hole is the most compact object in the universe. The Milky Way's central black hole, Sgr A* (Sagittarius A-star) shown above, weighs about 4 million times as much as our Sun, yet its event horizon spans only 8...

High winds in Florida have pushed to Sunday Orbital ATK's launch of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station, the latest in a series of delays due to weather.

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio wave...