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Long-ago close encounters with planetary building blocks may have cracked open the surfaces of icy moons in the outer solar system -- and could perhaps even have created the gigantic Martian canyon system Valles Marineri...

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace will make a second attempt at 9 a.m. EDT Saturday, May 28, to expand the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), currently attached to the International Space Station. NASA Television covera...

This is the most detailed view of Pluto's terrain you'll see for a very long time....

The low pressure area located between Bermuda and the Bahamas, designated as System 91L became a little better defined today. NASA's RapidScat analyzed the system's winds, and NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided a visibl...

Blue Origin, the builder of the New Shepard re-usable rocket, has announced plans for the fourth flight of the rocket. With a recent successful launch and landing in their pocket, the company is anticipating another simi...

An important amino acid called glycine has been detected in a comet for the first time, supporting the theory that these cosmic bodies delivered the ingredients for life on Earth, researchers said Friday.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Thursday's (May 26) planned blastoff of an upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a lucrative commercial mission to deliver a Thai telecommunications satellite to orbit, was postponed...

Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two years.

"The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens," said Aditya Chopra at Australia National University. "Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely ev...

"We found there are multiple atmospheric compositions that allow it to be warm enough to have surface liquid water," said Aomawa Shields, the study's lead author and a National Science Foundation astronomy and astrophysi...

NASA has rescheduled today's media teleconference, originally scheduled for noon EDT, to 2 p.m. for a discussion on the status of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) installed on the International Space Station...

Mars will make its closest approach to Earth on Memorial Day (May 30), presenting a prime viewing opportunity for skywatchers.

This imagery of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory from May 17-19, 2016, shows a giant dark area on the star's upper half, known as a coronal hole....

New Horizons:

A camera on-board the first stage of the rocket captured its descent back through Earth's atmosphere and onto a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean on May 27, 2016. It was used to launch the Thaicom 8 communication satellite...

The images from a 'strip' of the surface have been compiled to deliver this amazing look at the icy dwarf planet. The resolution of the imagery is about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel.

Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to stump researchers, led by Paolo Molaro of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory in Italy, who conducted the observations using the HARPS spectrograph at ESO's La Silla Ob...

The universe is expanding, but what's it expanding into? Nothing! Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains this baffling concept, plus how the universe can expand but not have an edge.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive officer, will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 12:55 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 1. The Earth-to-space ...

ESA's Mars Express's Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) was originally added to the mission for confirmation of its Beagle 2 lander separating from the spacecraft.

Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to puzzle researchers. When recently a team of astronomers led by Paolo Molaro of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory in Italy, conducted observations of these features, t...

They're back. After a wintertime largely devoid of evening worlds, the planets are once again in the evening sky. First Jupiter, then Mars have crossed opposition over the past few months, and now Saturn is set to take c...