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Model Karlie Kloss got access to SpaceX's rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, in September to take pictures for a profile in the current issue of the Wall Street Journal's WSJ. Magazine.

Elon Musk's dream and ultimate goal of establishing a permanent human presence on the Red Planet in the form of "A City on Mars" took a gigantic step forward with the game changing rocket landing and recovery technology ...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Living right on the flight path to Los Angeles International Airport delivers stunning night sky shots of the moon for astrophotographer Raul Roa. Roa took the image from Whittier, Calif.

A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket launched on Oct. 7, 2015, from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. The rocket deployed mixtures of barium and strontium for scientific research.

We always say that the Universe is trying to kill you. But seriously… it wants you dead. The Bad Astronomer Phil Plait joins us for a very special episode of Astronomy Cast where we talk about all the different ways th...

A fire broke out at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, damaging an out-of-use building that was formed from two Saturn V interstages. The fire in the "Mission to Mars" facility was brought under contr...

A long, exhausting hike was worth the effort for astrophotographer Justin Majeczky who captured this stunning image of the Milky Way over South Lake Tahoe in June 2015.

Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's massive clean room in Greenbelt, Maryland, the ninth flight mirror was installed onto the telescope structure with a robotic arm. This marks the halfway completion point for th...

NASA spacecraft got up close and personal with two separate dwarf planets, and two private spaceflight companies pulled off rocket landings, suggesting the long-sought dream of resuable rockets could become a reality rel...

New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its closest-ever dip toward the surface, show a surface marred by signs of stress typical of much larger bodies.

With the demands for drones on the rise and an increased rate of terrorist threats, the U.S. Air Force has had to change its ways.

This past fall, astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is one of six ESO Public Surveys for ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The service awards $3.1 million to Orbital ATK, $6 million to Aerojet Rocketdyne and $5.4 million to Northrop Grumman. SpaceNews.com

Using mathematical models, scientists have 'looked' into the interior of super-Earths and discovered that they may contain compounds that are forbidden by the classical rules of chemistry -- these substances may increase...

Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and radiation into space. These outbursts can be deadly: if the first moon-landing mission ha...

Highlight reel of achievements made by the space agency in 2015. Includes New Horizons' Pluto system exploration, astronaut Scott Kelly's One-Year ISS mission, and more.

The Bolivian Space Agency says 75 of the transponder capacity aboard its TKSAT-1 satellite, launched two years ago, has been sold. SpaceNews.com

At the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, colorful shoreline sloughs border Google headquarters (left), NASA Ames Research Center (right), and Moffett Federal Airfield....

A quick look back at the work NASA did with its commercial partners to further along their agenda.

Super-massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets when matter in the vicinity forms a hot, accreting disk around the black hole. The rapidly moving charged particles in the jets radia...