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Today: Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) Zero Robotics Dry Run: Kelly and Kornienko set up SPHERES hardware and executed a dry run for the Zero Robotics competition scheduled...

Highlights from Friday's spacewalk with Tim Peake and Tim Kopra

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The words "God save the queen" were spoken in space for the first time, according to an astronaut who received a message of salutation from Britain's monarch.

A thick nitrogen atmosphere might be able to support liquid water on the surface of an alien planet. Now researchers are learning how to spot this potentially important element from Earth.

A dark solar filament above the sun's surface became unstable and erupted on Dec. 16-17, 2015, generating a cascade of magnetic arches....

Zinnias have opened their petals for the first time on the International Space Station, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly couldn't be prouder.

Astrophotographer Derek Demeter took this image of Comet Catalina in December, 2015 from Chiefland Florida.

The U.S. Air Force expects to launch an experimental missile-warning satellite in 2018 or 2019, about two years later than the timeline service officials used last January.

This massive black hole candidate may be of the 'intermediate-mass' variety, possibly tying up a perplexing astrophysical puzzle.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Arizona officials approved a plan Jan. 19 to build a new headquarters and launch site for World View, a company developing high-altitude balloons for space tourism and other applications. SpaceNews.com

"In recent decades the ocean has continued to warm substantially, and with time the warming signal is reaching deeper into the ocean," said LLNL scientist Peter Gleckler, lead author of a paper published in the journal N...

A stellar eclipse will be visible from almost all of the United States tonight (Jan. 19), when a bright waxing gibbous moon passes in front of the star that marks the angry orange eye of Taurus, the bull.

European governments are establishing new funding sources to help Europe's satellite telecommunications industry remain competitive as the sector adapts to global demand for fixed and mobile broadband. SpaceNews.com

Elon Musk's venture follows up successful rocket landing on terra firma with one that nearly, but not quite, demonstrates a successful landing at sea --

The countdown has begun to the opening of Houston's newest landmark -- a $12 million, eight-story tall exhibit devoted to the largest historic artifact saved from NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. Independence Plaza ...

This past August, scientists working with CERN's ALICE (a Large Ion Collider Experiment), a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring, made precise measurements of particle mass and electric charge that ...

Have you got what it takes to help NASA design a free-flying robot for the International Space Station?...

A new missile co-developed by the United States and Japan is expected to participate in two intercepts tests later this year, Raytheon executives said Jan. 13. SpaceNews.com

Tuesday's briefing begins with word that Russia will ship the upper stage of a Soyuz rocket slated to launch from the newly built Vostochny Cosmodrome in April. SpaceNews.com

Archaean Eon diamonds dug up from ancient rock formations in the Johannesburg area, between 1890 and 1930 - before the industrialisation of gold mining - have revealed secrets of how the Earth worked more than 3.5 billio...