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NASA and NOAA have their satellite eyes on the powerful winter storm bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. East Coast this weekend, with the latest views showing the storm's growth and progress through the ...

Blue Origin may be preparing for another test flight of the company's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, based on an airspace restriction published by the Federal Aviation Administration Jan. 21.

NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 28, the 30th anniversary of the C...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Stuart Robbins, Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI); Mars Impact Craters, Science Lead on Moon Mappers and Mercury Mappers. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cos...

Skywatchers, get set. All five naked-eye planets -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter -- are appearing together in the pre-dawn sky for the first time in a decade.

A rare quantum color effect visible to the naked eye, this solar corona gives the view of the Himalayan mountain peak another boost of beauty.

Recent analyses have shown that distant orbits within the scattered disk population of the Kuiper belt exhibit an unexpected clustering in their respective arguments of perihelion....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

If there is one column that ranks as the most popular here at Space.com, this is it: the list of each full moon's distinctive names for the year to come.

NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking the large winter storm that is expected to bring heavy snowfall to the U.S. mid-Atlantic region on Jan. 22 and 23....

As mold threatened zinnia flowers in the space station Veggie experiment, investigators decided to take a bold move: allow an astronaut to take care of the flowers without always calling for help from home first.

This beautiful, natural-colour image from Sentinel-2A on 18 September 2015 features the small nation of Bahrain and parts of eastern Saudi Arabia....

The Expedition 46 crew of two U.S. astronauts, one British astronaut and three Russian cosmonauts practiced their emergency response skills today in conjunction with the Mission Control Centers in Houston and Moscow....

Pluto's blue bands shine spectacularly in the highest-resolution image yet of the dwarf planet's atmosphere.

Sierra Nevada Corp.'s win of a NASA contract to ferry cargo to the International Space Station will trigger a $36 million investment by the 22-nation European Space Agency following a cooperation agreement to be signed i...

Astronomers got the first hints of mysterious objects 30 years ago when they saw radio waves from a bright, distant galaxy called a quasar varying wildly in strength. They figured out this behavior was the work of our Ga...

A timelapse of last month's Principia launch to the Internaional Space Station with ESA astronaut Tim Peake, in 4K ultra-high definition

Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, say astrobiologists from The Australian National University (ANU).

After a six-week journey, LISA Pathfinder arrived at its destination today, an orbit around a point of balance in space where it will soon start testing technologies crucial for exploring the gravitational Universe.

NASA's Scott Kelly uses a pair of water repellent (hydrophobic) paddles to move a ball of water on the International Space Station.

So. 48 episodes, over eight hours of content, 100,000 words, a year and a half of work, topics ranging from quantum fluctuations to the death of the Universe... and, finally, here we are. The last episode of Crash Course...

A very large cold spot that has been a mystery for over a decade can be explained according to a team at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation...