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NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) will investigate the unusual atmospheric layer where Earth weather and space weather collide, between 37miles (60 km) and 620 miles (1,000 km) above the surface.

Crouching low beneath the underbelly of the behemoth James Webb Space Telescope "observatory core" test model, surrounded by critical test hardware, a technician toiled for hours wrapping the replica's surfaces in delica...

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

Biologists around the world routinely perform gene expression analysis to better understand living systems....

Fans of Arthur C. Clarke may recall how in his novel, 2010: Odyssey Two (or the movie adaptation called 2010: The Year We Make Contact), an alien species turned Jupiter into a new star. In so doing, Jupiter's moon Europa...

Two weeks after going into an emergency mode that jeopardized the mission, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has recovered and resumed normal science operations, the agency announced April 22. SpaceNews.com

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We've solved many of the problems associated with space travel. Humans can spend months in the zero-gravity of space, they can perform zero-gravity space-walks and repair spacecraft, they can walk on the surface of the M...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Mike Simmons, Founder and President of Astronomers without Borders (://astronomerswithoutborders.org), will be joining us to discuss the 2016 Global Astronomy Month (GAM)! GAM is...

A camera lens used during the Apollo 15 space mission in 1971 has been sold at auction for more than $450,000.

During the technical review prior to the start of Soyuz fueling, the availability of the launcher, satellites, ground facilities and the launch base was confirmed.

The Dawn spacecraft, NASA's asteroid hopping probe, may not be going gently into that good night as planned. Dawn has visited Vesta and Ceres, and for now remains in orbit around Ceres. The Dawn mission was supposed to e...

MDA Corp. Chief Executive Daniel E. Friedmann's decision to leave his job after 20 years at first blush looks like an injustice: He carries the wrong passport (Canadian) for a company whose growth is in part tied to U.S....

Researchers at Stockholm University are getting closer to corner light dark-matter particle models. Observations can rule out some axion-like particles in the quest for the content of dark matter. The article is now publ...

It took hundreds of observing hours for the Herschel Space Observatory to compile this infrared Galactic Plane Survey, revealing the star-forming regions through about 40% of our galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy is about 100...

ESA's Herschel space observatory mission released today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of cataloges of hundreds of thousands of comp...

Many large glaciers in Greenland are at greater risk of melting from below than previously thought, according to new maps of the seafloor around Greenland created by an international research team....

The International Space Station residents were back at work today continuing this week's slate of life science experiments. The ongoing biomedical space research helps scientists understand how living in space long term ...

ESA's Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy....

Our week through the lens: 18-22 April 2016

Your world is 4.543 billion years old. Life arose surprisingly quickly (4.1 billion years ago). Until 60 years ago, no creature ever left Earth via technology. Soon we all could...

China plans to send a rover to Mars to explore the Red Planet, a top space official announced on Friday, in the latest step of its ambitious space program.Authorities approved the mission in January, said National Space ...