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NEW JERSEY- The monstrous 'Blizzard of 2016' predicted by weather forecasters for days has struck a wide swath of the US East Coast from the Gulf coast to the Carolinas to New York and soon into New England, with full fu...

Officials at Space Center Houston hailed the opening of Independence Plaza on Jan. 23, a $12 million attraction showcasing NASA's first space shuttle-carrying jumbo jet topped by a full-size mockup of the winged orbiters...

"This would be a real ninth planet," says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy. "There have only been two true planets discovered since ancient times, and this would be a third. It's ...

On Jan. 22, 2016, the private spaceflight company Blue Origin launched and landed its New Shepard rocket and crew capsule in a successful test flight that also reused a spaceflown rocket. See images from the test flight ...

Two months after the breakthrough launch and vertical landing of a reusable rocket, the space firm created by Internet entrepreneur Jeff Bezos did it again.

Blue Origin successfully launched and landed Jan. 22 the same New Shepard vehicle that flew in November, a demonstration of the vehicle's reusability and the latest round of one-upmanship in its rivalry with SpaceX. Spac...

As the epic winter storm Jonas bore down on the U.S. East Coast this morning (Jan. 23), astronaut Scott Kelly snapped a series of photos of the storm's evolution from orbit, including one that catches a view of unusual "...

This view from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows the downwind side of "Namib Dune," which stands about 13 feet (4 meters) high....

Several hot spots on the island of Tasmania were detected by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite....

Satellites are carrying increasingly diverse payloads into orbit, and resolving their often-conflicting onboard schedules requires programming wizardry and a little help from artificial intelligence....

Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way....

On Jan 22nd, 2016, the private spaceflight company launched its New Shepard booster and capsule to an altitude of 333,582 feet (101.7 km).

In a long list of really unusual images of Pluto's big moon Charon taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, the one above may be the unusualest. And most poetic. It's Charon, lit by Plutolight. Let me explain. Pluto is so f...

Blue Origin launch and landed its New Shepard reusable launch vehicle Friday (Jan. 22) at its West Texas test facility. The notoriously secretive company did not announce the mission ahead of time, but FAA airspace restr...

From amazing photos of a SpaceX rocket launching and attempting to land on a ship at sea to overhead views of the massive winter storm lashing the United States' East Coast, don't miss these great space images.

The very same New Shepard booster that flew above the Karman line and then landed vertically at its launch site last November has now flown and landed again, demonstrating reuse....

A team of researchers has successfully used a robot to build an entire launch pad, something that could be very helpful in our push further into space.

By now you've probably heard the announcement that astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown think they've tracked down "Planet 9," a long-rumored large world orbiting in the distant wilderness of the solar system. E...

Can a full moon make a winter storm even worse? Yes, scientists say. Here's how.

The space agency takes a look back at spacesuit history and leaps forward to how the latest suits were designed. NASA has been developing and testing new spacesuits to be used beyond low-Earth orbit.

In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi raised a very important question about the Universe and the existence of extra-terrestrial life. Given the size and age of the Universe, he stated, and the statistical probability of life ...

A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star ever discovered.