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It's taken a year of repairs, but a commercial launchpad on Virginia's Eastern Shore is once again ready for private rocket launches bound for the International Space Station.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon.

Five months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto to take the first images and measurements of this icy world and its system of satellites, knowledge about this distant system continues to unfold.

NASA took an important step Friday to establish regular crew missions that will launch from the United States to the International Space Station with the order of its second post-certification mission from Boeing Space E...

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA are preparing for a previously unscheduled spacewalk outside the International Space Station on either Monday, Dec. 21, or Tuesday, Dec. 22. The p...

Two Americans aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for a possible spacewalk early next week to free a stalled cart.

Just under four months into the science phase of the mission, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, is delivering promising early results on a process called magnetic reconnection--a kind of magnetic explosion that's...

Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays.

China has successfully placed a satellite called the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) into a sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth. Its mission is to study high-energy particles and γ-rays as part of an overall ob...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin returns for another visit! He’s the Director of the new documentary, Sky Line, The Space Elevator Documentary. The film debuted at DOC NYC 2015 [Nov 12-...

Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research at the University of Leicester.

NASA has created the ultimate drone contingency plan: a virtual leash called Safeguard that keeps drones from getting lost or flying into a no-fly zone.

A little statistics knowledge suggests we be way underestimating a typical alien's stature.

A long, winding mosaic photo reveals the face of Pluto in all its dizzying, baffling variety.

NASA moved closer to developing a rocket engine that is developed using 3D printing technology, successfully testing parts together for the first time.

Galaxy 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NuSTAR's high-energy X-rays eyes were able to obtain the best view yet into the hidden lair of the galaxy NGC 1068's central, supermass...

Just how beautiful is our planet? This beautiful: Holy sweet mother of Earth. This incredible photo was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been mapping the Moon since it achieved orbit in 2009. Its came...

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is sniffing the air for methane, searching for clues that could help researchers determine what caused a dramatic spike of the gas near the rover two years ago.

This image was taken by Mastcam: Left (MAST_LEFT) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 1194 (2015-12-16 01:59:11 UTC)....

Nearly 47 years ago, the crew of Apollo 8 took an image of planet Earth from the Moon that has been called "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken." Called "Earthrise," the picture represented the first...

Competing ideas suggest how sloshing motions could maintain a primordial magnetic field --