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Tucked away in the basement of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, boxes held hundreds of glass plates imprinted with images of telescope observations, some of which are 120 years old --

Tucked away in the basement of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, boxes held hundreds of glass plates imprinted with images of telescope observations, some of which are 120 years old --

Today: Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint (TRRJ) Repositioning for Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)-02: Due to the high negative beta angle, the AMS team requested that the Starboard-Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint (S-TRRJ) be...

Astrophotographer Laura Austin captured this stunning image of the ISS in the night sky on Sept. 10, 2015 from Sarnia, Ontaria, Canada.

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to the new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever ...

You can say what you like about our nearest star, but as this latest solar eruption proves, it certainly has impeccable timing.

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has produced 50 grams of the energy source for NASA and other missions. The laboratory's project lead Bob Wham explains how it was processed.

A view from above in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shows a 325-ton crane lifting the first half of the K-level work platforms up for installation in High Bay 3....

The test flight of the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle (IXV), the Rosetta probe's exploration of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ISS missions and more kept the space agency busy in 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 composite image of European storm Frank was taken at 09:00 (UTC) on Tuesday 29 December 2015....

"We bid a poignant goodbye to our close views of this amazing icy world," said Linda Spilker, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Cassini has made so many breatht...

The top space and astronomy stories of 2015 range from solar system missions to space station visits, from distant galaxies to Earth-like planets.

An explosion in space may have created not only a brilliant nebula but also a rapidly spinning neutron star, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

One astronaut is about to bravely go where no man has gone before: for a 26-mile (42 km) run aboard the International Space Station.

Cassini made its final flyby of Saturn's icy geyser satellite, Enceladus, last weekend. Although it will continue to study the moon from a distance, it will no longer draw quite so near to the fountains that made the moo...

Tuesday's briefing begins with SpaceX and ULA racing towards personal bests in lobbying expenditures and Putin replacing the Russian Federal Space Agency with a state-run corporation with the same name and responsibiliti...

As the year winds down, can we take a moment to remember how beautiful our Universe can be? Especially our little local piece of it. That image above was taken by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn si...

The current capability of our technological society to predict space weather is primitive. Yet our national electric power grid, our thousands of satellites in Earth orbit and virtually all of our crucial electronic gadg...

Here it is... our year end look at upcoming events in a sky near you. This is not a top 10 listicle, and not a full-fledged almanac, but hopefully, something special and unique in between. And as always, some of the even...

SpaceNews published nearly 100 op-eds in 2015; here are the top 10. Some are thought-provoking, some are controversial, but all are worth a read. SpaceNews.com

The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space - this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a state of free fall, ...