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A SpaceX capsule returned to Earth on Wednesday with precious science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident.

Pluto can't seem to catch a break lately. After being reclassified in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, it seemed that what had been the 9th planet of the Solar System was now relegated to the status of "dwar...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover today completes its second Martian year since landing inside Gale Crater nearly four Earth years ago, which means it has recorded environmental patterns through two full cycles of Martian seas...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, with more than 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technolo...

The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Kepler-223 system is trapped in an orbital configuration that ...

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The Kepler mission’s announcement of 1,284 worlds previews the overwhelming number of planetary discoveries to come --

223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Kepler-223 system is trapped in an orbital configuration that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Ne...

The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Kepler-223 system is trapped in an orbital configuration that ...

EchoStar Corp.'s Hughes division on May 10 said a recent consumer satellite broadband contract with the Turkish government and a combined Eutelsat/Facebook deal in Africa are just the start of the company's ambition of r...

Engineers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently conducted a series of pressure tests of the Orion pressure vessel....

An international team led by Japanese researchers has made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein's general theory of relativity is still valid....

From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity....

"We know that in this region there are a few very large collections of galaxies we call clusters or superclusters, and our whole Milky Way is moving towards them at more than two million kilometers per hour." Hundreds of...

The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship is ending its stay tomorrow at the International Space Station. The commercial cargo craft has been packed with about 3,700 pounds of cargo, spacewalk gear and biological samples for analysis...

That lumpy pierogi in the photo above is Saturn's moon Epimetheus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in December 2015. This is a pretty cool shot; instead of the sharp blackness of space behind the moon, you see the fuzzy ...

A SpaceX capsule headed back to Earth on Wednesday with precious science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident.

Since it was discovered in the late 1990s that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, scientists have been trying to explain why. The mysterious dark energy could be driving acceleration, or Einstein's theory ...

The uncrewed Dragon undocked at 9:19 a.m. EDT today (May 11), ending a monthlong orbital stay attached to the space station. Dragon is scheduled to splash down today at 2:55 p.m. EDT in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja Cal...

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