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Oh, the wonder of science! It inspires people to learn more, investigate more, even if the payoff isn't obvious. But don't believe me: Just watch this: I don't think I could say it any better myself. But I have said it: ...

Put your 3D glasses on and take this narrated tour of the International Space Station. Visit all the modules of humankind's weightless laboratory orbiting Earth 400 km above....

A Chinese space lab is bound to come back to Earth soon, but when and where this happens is a matter of debate and speculation.

Thanks to a decade worth of high-tech imaging, the use of the ancient device called the Antikythera Mechanism can now be confirmed. The device, which was discovered over a century ago in an ancient shipwreck near the Gre...

Three International Space Station crew members are scheduled to depart the orbiting outpost Saturday, June 18. NASA Television will provide coverage of their preparations for departure and return to Earth, beginning at 9...

Three International Space Station crew members are scheduled to depart the orbiting outpost Saturday, June 18. NASA Television will provide coverage of their preparations for departure and return to Earth, beginning at 9...

Every now and then we look up and see bright fiery balls falling from the sky. Don’t panic, these are just bolides. Sometimes they leave trails, sometimes they explode, and sometimes they survive all the way to the gro...

The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new gl...

Intellectual curiosity is a great gift. It's fulfilling to ponder the great questions of existence: Will the Universe die of heat death after it's expanded for billions and billions (and billions) more years? Is there so...

The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new gl...

More than a third of humanity cannot see the Milky Way due to light pollution, and a new wave of energy-efficient lighting could make the problem much worse --

NASA's leadership and top aeronautics innovators will discuss the agency's 10-year plan to transform aviation at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) annual Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exp...

The age of full-blown reusable rockets is coming another step closer. SpaceX, the private company owned by PayPal founder Elon Musk, has always strove toward reusable rockets. So far, they've successfully landed and reco...

Tim Peake: We're seeing some rare high altitude noctilucent clouds just now - hope for some better pics next week. Larger image Credits: ESA/NASA...

Satellite trackers debate where and when eight-ton Tiangong-1 will come down  --

Expedition 47 is preparing the Orbital ATK Cygnus space freighter for its June 14 departure from the International Space Station. The Canadarm2 robotic arm will maneuver towards Cygnus and grapple the cargo craft before ...

"If the duplications and subsequent mutations of this gene during evolution didn't happen, then life would be completely different today," said Steven Pelech, a professor in Division of Neurology in the UBC Faculty of Me...

A new enhanced color view of Pluto's great ice plains (southeast portion) was created by combining the NASA New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) image with Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVI...

The object known unofficially as Tabby's Star dims every so often in a chaotic pattern—and nobody knows why --

Trying to create a whiff of an alien atmosphere—sunbaked sulfur and chalk --

Most Martian dust storms are localized, smaller than about 1,200 miles (about 2,000 kilometers) across and dissipating within a few days. Some become regional, affecting up to a third of the planet and persisting up to t...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: