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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...

Inside a massive clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team is steadily installing the largest space telescope mirror ever...

NASA's Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency's Space Launch System rocket....

Inside a massive clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team is steadily installing the largest space telescope mirror ever. Unlike other space telescope mi...

Among the most striking objects in the universe are glittering, dense swarms of stars known as globular clusters....

Here's an amazing photograph of the Milky Way by astrophotographer Matt Dieterich. He took the image a step further, however, and identified all the constellations you can see close to the Milky Way. You'll want to click...

Among the most striking objects in the universe are glittering, dense swarms of stars known as globular clusters. Astronomers had long thought globular clusters formed their millions of stars in bulk at around the same t...

Geospatial imagery provider DigitalGlobe on Jan. 27 said it had booked about $200 million in firm contracts for very high-resolution optical imagery from its WorldView-3 and especially its future WorldView-4 satellite fr...

IC 1613 is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). This VST image [1] shows the galaxy's unconventional beauty, all scattered stars and bright pink gas, in great detail.

Some welcome his latest report as a fresh way to solve a black hole conundrum; others are unsure of its merits --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomer and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted his share of critics, but none quite like a rapper named B.o.B who believes the Earth is flat (Yes, flat). SpaceNews.com

The Royal Astronomical Society (RSA) has announced the discovery of a planet that orbits its star at a distance of 1 trillion kilometres. This is easily the furthest distance between a star and a planet ever found. For c...

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On Jan. 26th, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery (at several different wavelengths) of superheated plasma exploding away from the Sun in a Coronal Mass Ejection event. [The blast is not Earth-direct...

A cleverly stitched together set of imagery from Japanese weather satellite Himawari 8 creates a jaw-dropping HD time-lapse of a day-in-the-life of Earth—this is Glittering Blue --

IC 1613 is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). This VST image above shows the galaxy's unconventional beauty, all scattered stars and bright pink gas, in great detail. Astronomers have found i...

The International Space Station will raise its orbit Wednesday afternoon before a pair of crews swap places and a cargo ship arrives in March....

On human spatial and time scales, stars seem motionless. Sure, they rise and set, but that's a reflection (literally) of the Earth spinning on its axis once a day. But the stars themselves move, orbiting the center of th...

Airbus and OneWeb on Jan. 26 announced they had formed the company OneWeb Satellites, which will build the OneWeb constellation. SpaceNews.com

Wednesday's briefing begins with Sen. John McCain joining forces with the House majority leader to try to reinstate a ban on the Russian-built RD-180 engine. SpaceNews.com

From the mystery of methane on Mars to how Jupiter formed and whether there is microbial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus, there are many questions about our solar system waiting to be answered this year.