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Our Solar System is a fascinating place. Between its eight planets and many dwarf planets, there are some serious differences in terms of orbit, composition, and temperature. Whereas conditions within the inner Solar Sys...

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a new image of Mars, as the planet approaches its closest position to Earth. NASA scientist Jennifer Wiseman discussed the significance of Hubble's long-term observations of the Red Pla...

America's first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth - OSIRIS-Rex - has arrived at its Florida launch base for processing to get ready for blastoff barely thr...

Aswan High Dam The Aswan High Dam on the river Nile, creating Lake Nasser. North is left in this picture. Credits: ESA/NASA larger image...

Tim Peake: Two nanosats Another 2 Nanosats launched this morning - spot #Gibraltar down there? Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image...

Tim Peake: Must be about time for another pic of the Himalayas! Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image...

The European-built Cupola was added to the International Space Station in 2010 and continues to provide the best room with a view anywhere....

India was making final preparations Sunday for the launch of its first model space shuttle, as it bids to join the race to one day make rockets as reusable as airplanes.

"The Center of our Milky Way Galaxy is a place of extremes," says Mark Morris, an expert on The Galactic Center at UCLA. "For every star in our nighttime sky, for example, there would be a million for someone looking...

If this trailer is any indication, the third installment of the 'rebooted' movie franchise looks like another action-packed adventure. Hits theaters July 22, 2016.

NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour has received its external tank. The burnt orange fuel tank, NASA's last remaining example of its type, built for, but never launched, arrived at the California Science Center.