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Since the first component of the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on Nov. 20, 1998, the station has flown 2,643,342,240 miles. On May 16, 2016 it will officially have surpassed 100,000 orbits.

On June 30th, 1905, Albert Einstein started a revolution with the publication of theory of Special Relativity. This theory, among other things, stated that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, re...

Haumea, a dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system doesn't have the same kind of moons as its well-known cousin Pluto according to a new study. This is despite original evidence that suggested they both formed in sim...

"Worlds could become habitable around small red suns for billions of years, maybe even starting life, just like Earth. That makes me very optimistic for the chances for life in the long run," says Lisa Kaltenegger, assoc...

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Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission in late 2018, Science Minister Navdeep Bains announced Monday.

It is known as the Cupola, an observation and work area that was installed aboard the International Space Station in 2010. In addition to giving the crew ample visibility to support the control of the Station's robotic a...

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All throughout the universe, there are stars in varying phases and ages. The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity sug...

NASA researchers discuss the best way to delve into the depths of Saturn's moon Titan in a new clip from the Science channel show "Space's Deepest Secrets."

The International Space Station, the space laboratory that showcases cooperation between Russia and the United States, on Monday orbited Earth for the 100,000th time, Russian mission control said.

Students in Winter, Wisconsin, will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:15 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 19. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call wil...

MIT scientists say that the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), a period that scientists believe marked the beginning of oxygen's permanent presence in the atmosphere, started as early as 2.33 billion years ago, buiulding up ...

The Defense Department and intelligence community will have to weigh increased capabilities versus the ability for future satellites to withstand attacks from China and Russia, a senior Pentagon leader said May 16. Space...

All life on Earth uses DNA to encode and store genes, and to pass them on from one generation to the next. RNA, a close molecular relative of DNA, is used within living cells to carryout a wide variety of...

The ultra-black Vantablack surface coating material has made its space debut in an optical instrument on board the Kent Ridge 1 satellite....

Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid 20 to 30 kilometers across that struck the Earth early in its life with an impact larger than anything humans have experienced. A 400 kilometer-wide impact zone from a hu...

The Science Channel show talks to the NASA engineers who are designing the submarine. They hope to find life with the cameras and instrumentation aboard.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

It has been described as "the most mysterious star in the universe" by Yale astronomer Tabetha Boyajian who first described it in a TED talk she gave last February. "The dips found by Kepler are real. Something seems to ...

Seventy million light-years from Earth lies the somewhat odd galaxy NGC 1332. It falls somewhere in between the two main galaxy types of elliptical and spiral; it's disk shaped but lacks obvious spiral arms and is quite ...

Volcano eruptions can wreak havoc on airline schedules, with cancellations and re-routing. The NASA/NOAA/DoD Suomi NPP satellite is delivering 3D looks at the resulting ash clouds, which can create more accurate forecast...