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The three orbiting residents on the International Space Station worked on commercial crew vehicle equipment and lab maintenance today. The crew members also worked on life science and physics research to improve life for...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - SpaceX's Falcon 9 finally put on a dazzling sky show after the commercial booster at last took flight on the fifth launch attempt, shortly after sunset on Friday, March 4, 2014. Lau...

NASA's first wide-field soft X-ray camera, which incorporated a never-before-flown focusing technology when it debuted in late 2012, is a gift that keeps giving.

In this animation, people slightly outside the path of the total eclipse will see partial eclipses with bites taken out of the sun in different directions.Animation courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space... --

Science@NASA:

All over the Earth, there is a buried layer of sediment rich in iridium called the Cretaceous Paleogene-Boundary (K-Pg.) This sediment is the global signature of the 10-km-diameter asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs-...

The winners of the Fiscal Year 2015 agency-level Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA) were announced Tuesday during the spring 2016 NASA Industry Forum meeting hosted by the agency's Office of Small Business Programs at...

Microscopic dust particles have been found in meteoritic material on Earth, particles that were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the creation of our star, the sun.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Today is International Women's Day - on Earth and In Space....

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 15, to discuss several science investigations launching on the next Orbital ATK commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

A timeline of every mission sent to Mars so far.

Recently, I wrote about an exciting astronomical discovery: The location and distance of a Fast Radio Burst (or FRB), a tremendous cosmic flash of radio-wave energy. Quite a few of these have been detected, but they last...

The trailer for the new IMAX movie "A Beautiful Planet," features footage of Earth taken from the International Space Station. The movie opens in theaters on April 29.

NASA Stennis Space Center:

The near-Earth asteroid 2013 TX68 flew by our planet at 8:12 a.m. EST Monday at a distance of about 2.54 million miles (4.09 million kilometers), according to researchers at the Minor Planet Center.

Essential info for viewing Tuesday's night sky show --

The Pyrenees looking beautiful in the sunshine as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Tim Peake....

Results of an international team of astronomers strongly suggests that 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, galactic clumps in the young universe grow to become large galaxies through mergers, which then causes active s...

After completing a long series of tests on the spacecraft and payload, the ESA mission LISA Pathfinder has started its science mission....

The moon blocked out the sun over Indonesia and nearby regions on March 9, 2016 in a total solar eclipse that wowed stargazers across southeast Asia. See photos from the amazing sun event here.