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The International Space Station (ISS) grew in size today, April 16, following the successful installation of an experimental new room - the BEAM expandable habitat module. Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Hous...

Comets get blamed for everything. Pestilence in medieval Europe? Comets! Mass extinctions? Comets! Even the anomalous brightness variations in the Kepler star KIC 8462852 was blamed for a time on comets. Now it looks lik...

A symposium on space this past week was abuzz with talk of a new golden age of space travel.

The SpaceX Dragon U.S. commercial cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station April 10 -- two days after being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon was captured with the space...

As all the world knows by now, Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire investor, and Stephen Hawking, the famed astrophysicist, have revealed plans for an interstellar mission, $100 million Breakthrough Starshot, that would...

Following extraction from Dragon, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was installed to the International Space Station at 5:36 a.m. EDT on Saturday....

Tim Peake: The real thing: found Everest! Last picture turned out to be third-tallest mountain Kanchengjunga Larger image...

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

Apropos of nothing, I just want to show you this amazing photo from SpaceX showing the Falcon 9 first stage booster landing on the drone ship, as seen from that ship: Seriously. C'mon. There are more photos like this on ...