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Gas station attendant, electronics installer, home inspector: is there any fix-it job that NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) can't tackle during its four-year career? As NASA takes a break in RRM operations, it's lo...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Todd May director of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. May was appointed Marshall deputy director in August 2015 and has been serving as acting ...

NASA has awarded a contract to MORI Associates, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, for information technology and external communications services at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The first person to ever write an article for Universe Today (apart from me) was Tammy Plotner. Tammy was an experienced amateur astronomer, and had already dedicated her life to sharing her love of the night sky with th...

Clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 later --

The European Space Agency has declared the spacecraft’s mission at an end --

The idea is to prevent the quadcopters from being used for dangerous reasons.

PDCO will synchronize U.S. efforts and coordinate with international agencies to deal with large asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth --

Astronomers have mapped and measured the cosmos as far as the laws of physics allow to the very edge of the observable universe. Age and distance are vitally connected in any discussion of the universe. The light we see ...

Ever since we were invited to explore the "final frontier" on the USS Enterprise, "Star Trek" technologies have also made their way into our everyday lives.

The car-size Curiosity rover was hard at work investigating Namib Dune -- part of a larger complex of shifting dark Martian sand called Bagnold Dunes -- when it captured the photo on Jan. 19.

We live in interesting times. For thousands of years, we have thought we knew what the universe - and everything in it - was made of: normal matter, the kind that make up the elements of the periodic table.

I (and many others) have shown that the loudest voices in the climate change denial noise machine have long since run out of any real credibility. There are numerous ways to reach that conclusion; for example you can loo...

In the far reaches of the solar system, a hidden planet larger than Earth may be lurking --

On the road to restoring US Human spaceflight from US soil, SpaceX conducted a pair of key tests involving a propulsive hover test and parachute drop test for their Crew Dragon vehicle which is slated to begin human miss...

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter are visible just before sunrise until Feb. 20th. Earlier in the evening, Comet Catalina nears the North Star (Polaris), Spiral galaxy IC 342 and planetary nebula NGC 1501.

Monday's briefing begins with a former astronaut and a space tourist campaigning for Hillary Clinton on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, plus a look at what's happening this week. SpaceNews.com

ESA is teaming up with the organisers of Asteroid Day 2016, scheduled for 30 June

Despite its unassuming appearance, the edge-on spiral galaxy captured in the left half of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is actually quite remarkable.

Missions like the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity's view of the cosmos. The space agency announced that it is forming four working groups to investigate possible concepts for its next large-scale miss...

SpaceX's silence on the schedule delays of its Falcon 9 Upgrade rocket is causing ripples of concern among commercial customers, which like NASA are counting on a high launch cadence in 2016 to meet these companies' sche...

The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand.