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It's not in a galaxy far, far away or even another star system -- this alien world is right in our planetary backyard, a mere 900 million miles away in orbit around Saturn.

NASA has just received a significant boost in the agency's current budget after both chambers of Congress passed the $1.1 Trillion 2016 omnibus spending bill this morning, Friday, Dec. 18, which funds the US government t...

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency offered their thoughts on being in orbit a...

. "The image is simply stunning," said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The image of the Earth evokes the famous 'Blue Marble' image taken by Astronaut...

Aboard the International Space Station, newly arrived Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of Great Britain and the European Space Agency discussed his first days in orbit on the complex and his goals and aspirations ...

One of my favorite things to do as a science communicator is melt peoples' brains*. There isn't a better playing field for that than cosmology, the study of the origin, structure, and fate of the Universe itself. Last we...

Although it initially stated that names and addresses of drone owners will not be made public or searchable, the FAA clarified its answer. The administration underlined that its electronic registry will become public at ...

Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new NASA and National Science Foundation-funded study of more than half of the world's freshwater s...

The near-Earth asteroid 2015 YB, which is about 34 feet (10 meters) wide, cruised within a mere 34,670 miles (55,800 kilometers) of the planet at around 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) today.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

SpaceX has tentatively scheduled the launch of its first Falcon 9 mission since a June failure for Dec. 20 after completing a static-fire test of the vehicle on the launch pad late Dec. 18. SpaceNews.com

An ancient supernova that was serendipitously captured in four Hubble space telescope images thanks to a naturally occurring cosmic magnifying lens has reappeared, as astronomers predicted.

NASA has announced that it has ordered its second crewed flight from Boeing, the third in a series of four crewed flight ordered from either Boeing or SpaceX.