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Astronauts are being instructed on "part-task trainers" for the new CST-100 crew transport spacecraft being developed by Boeing. The training includes: launch, landing and docking to the International Space Station simul...

These four galaxy clusters were part of a large survey of over 300 clusters used to investigate dark energy, the mysterious energy that is currently driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe, as described in our...

A microsatellite designed in the Philippines was deployed outside Japan's Kibo laboratory module this morning for climate research. Inside the International Space Station, the crew continued more human research to improv...

NASA will commemorate the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine Johnson to America's space program during a building dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 5 -- the 55th anniversary of Alan Shepa...

Internet satellite constellation startup OneWeb LLC on April 28 said it had submitted its license application with U.S. regulators as part of what likely will be a multi-year slog through the world's capitals as the comp...

Nearly 10 billion years ago in a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418, a dramatic explosion occurred....

The U.S. Air Force would have access to as many as 18 Russian RD-180 rocket engines under a bill the House Armed Services Committee approved April 28. SpaceNews.com

NASA's commercial crew astronauts Suni Williams and Eric Boe tried out a new generation of training simulators at the Boeing facility in St. Louis Tuesday that will prepare them for launch, flight and returns aboard the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) isn't even operational yet, and already its gleaming golden mirror has reached iconic status. It's segmented mirror is reminiscent of an insect eye, and once that eye is unfolded at ...

Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question-- summed up in the famous Drake equation -- has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science.

Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question--summed up in the famous Drake equation--has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science. But new research shows that the r...

Sentinel-1B's first data strip stretches 600 km from 80°N degrees through the Barents Sea....

Tim Peake: I'm guessing there was an impressive storm going on under that cumulonimbus cloud! Credits: ESA/NASA larger image...

There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse -- an infinite number of other universes besides our own.

Less than three days after it was launched, Sentinel-1B has delivered its first radar image of Earth

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's solar-powered probe will give us a better idea of Jupiter's weather, magnetic field and formation history.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Cosmologist Latham Boyle with Canada's Perimeter Institute is excited about the unknowns that gravitational waves could now reveal. He explained there was a span of decades between the discovery of radio waves and their ...

Active region 2529 erupted with an M6.7-class solar flare on April 17th, 2016. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in several wavelengths.

Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question--summed up in the famous Drake equation--has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science.

The JWST, the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Scientists from around the world will use this unique observatory to capture images and spectra o...