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Scott Kelly, the astronaut who has spent a U.S.-record 520 days in space, will have his name on a New Jersey elementary school--and so will his twin brother, Mark.

Violent red flashes, lasting just fractions of a second, have been observed during one of the brightest black hole outbursts in recent years.

Scientists are studying the "weather" around young sun-like stars in an attempt to understand the conditions needed for a system to have planets that would stand a chance of hosting life.

The early Solar System was a much different place than it is now. Chaos reigned supreme before things settled down into their present state. New research shows that the young Sun was more chaotic and expressive than it i...

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Eight months after its encounter with the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto continues to surprise the scientists who study this distant world. Pluto and its largest moon Charon above comprise what is essentially a binary pl...

This image of haze layers above Pluto's limb was taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft....

After 20 years with NASA, America's star astronaut Scott Kelly says it's time to move on.

Pluto's surface exhibits a wide variety of landscapes, results from five new studies in this special issue on the New Horizons mission report. The dwarf planet has more differences than similarities with its large moon, ...

Intentionally lighting a fire onboard a spacecraft might seem like a bad idea. But in order to understand how fire behaves on a spacecraft, and in order to reduce the risk from fire to crew members and equipment, NASA en...

A student-built University of Colorado Boulder instrument riding on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft found only a handful of dust grains, the building blocks of planets, when it whipped by Pluto at 31,000 miles per hour la...

A bright "fireball" meteor has lit up British skies.

Star cluster R136 is only a few light-years across and is located in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170 000 light-years away. The young cluster hosts many extremely massive, hot and luminou...

Despite the enthusiasm for commercial satellite weather systems expressed by a key member of Congress, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said March 16 she has yet to see proof that such syst...

Don't let historic launch sites fade from memory as they decay -- it is not too late to preserve them.

An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3 - ://.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfc3/) with the unprecedented ...

New images of a young star made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal what scientists think may be the very earliest stages in the formation of planets. The scientists used the VLA to see unprecedented de...

Operations image of the week: Asteroid hunters in three countries spotted ExoMars en route to the Red Planet

Caltech neuroscientists have looked inside brain cells as they undergo the intense bursts of neural activity known as "ripples" that are thought to underlie memory formation. During ripples, a small fraction of brain cel...

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When Soyuz capsule seats 'cock,' it's tighter than "fitting three people into the front of a Volkswagen Beetle" says NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren. With astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tracy Dyson, Lindgren reminisces about...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in February 2016.