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NASA is not often known for making the best use of existing COTS (commercial off the shelf technology) abord the ISS....

Tim Peake: From space it's easy to see how nature has sculpted the landscape #AfricaArt...

"The mystery of why we haven't yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of the origin of life or intelligence and have more to do with the rarity of the rapid emergence of biological...

Extreme weather events like floods, heat waves and droughts can devastate communities and populations worldwide. Recent scientific advances have enabled researchers to confidently say that the increased intensity and fre...

During a March 10 hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden testified about the $19 billion dollar Fiscal Year 2017 budge...

The first phase of the ExoMars mission is scheduled to launch Monday atop a Russian Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:31 a.m. EDT. You can watch the liftoff live here at Space.com, courtesy of t...

From its vantage point a million miles from Earth, the DSCOVR satellite captured spectacular images of Tuesday's (March 11) total solar eclipse; the photos have been combined into a gorgeous video, which you can see here...

The ExoMars mission launching Monday (March 14) will pack an orbiter as well as an ambitious Mars lander prototype that will make the challenging descent to a controlled landing on the Martian surface.

Momotombo's been busy. This volcano, located off Lake Managua (also called Lago Xolotlán) in Nicaragua, has erupted a handful of times in modern history, but starting in March it started popping off hundreds of small ex...

The European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter and lander are set to launch early Monday (March 14) morning from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, packed with scientific payloads to search for Martian life.

See pictures and conceptual art of the European Space Agency's two planned ExoMars missions to Mars.

A gorgeous total solar eclipse, a Mars lander's second chance and the secrets of Mercury's crust star in Space.com's best stories of the week.

Tim Peake: Some snow on the Welsh hills today - I think I've climbed all of those thanks to the British Army....