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This video captures a surprising view of Sentinel-3A on its way into orbit amidst the flickering green of the northern lights....

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

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet 2M1207b by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massiv...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Rebecca Roth, Imaging Coordinator & Social Media Specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; responsible for sharing imagery with the media, as well as sharing those imag...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

A report released by NASA Feb. 18 found no scientific showstoppers for the agency's planned Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), but suggested a precursor mission to the selected asteroid could improve the odds of success. S...

Nine years after China's ASAT test, the debate over how to deal with anti-satellite weapons, and even how to define them, continues. SpaceNews.com

NASA Breaking News:

The Sun has enormous destructive power. Any objects that collide with the Sun, such as comets and asteroids, are immediately destroyed. But now we're finding that the Sun has the ability to reach out and touch asteroids ...

There are flowers blooming in orbit and they echo back to a cinematic precursor filmed 44 years ago....

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet, a young, gaseous exoplanet known as 2M1207b, shown below, located some 160 ...

The animation was developed from a series of images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July, 2015. --

Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin....

NASA Breaking News:

European antitrust authorities appear poised to withhold immediate approval of the purchase by Airbus Safran Launchers of the French government's stake in launch-service provider Arianespace pending an investigation that...

The International Space Station just got a whole lot tidier.

We think of the universe as existing in three dimensions, plus the fourth dimension of time, which together are referred to as spacetime. But, in branches of theoretical physics such as string theory, the universe could ...

A new tally proposes that roughly 700 quintillion terrestrial exoplanets are likely to exist across the observable universe—most vastly different from Earth --

While the golden age of exoplanets has barely begun, an exciting additional chapter is also taking shape: the hunt for exomoons.

One of the (many) reasons I wanted to make the Crash Course Astronomy series was to create a resource for people. The series is set up like a supplemental astronomy class covering the same sorts of things you'd hear abou...

Expedition 46 astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra of NASA commanded the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the Cygnus spacecraft at 7:26 a.m. EST while the space station was flying above Boli...

Last week's announcement that Gravitational Waves (GW) have been detected for the first time--as a result of the merger of two black holes--is huge news. But now a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) originating from the same place, a...