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ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space...

Hunting for extraterrestrials means sending out signals like television broadcasts, for example. As Earth's electronic ambassador, TV and radio signals are sent into space as a byproduct of broadcasting. These signals ha...

Three crew members from the International Space Station returned to Earth at 5:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday after wrapping up 186 days in space and several NASA research studies in human health....

While NASA has had a long and storied history of building and testing experimental aircraft - called X-planes -- it has been almost a decade since the space agency has developed any new aircraft. But an initiative announ...

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at approximately 14:15 UTC (10:15 a.m. Eastern time), the private rocket company Blue Origin plans to launch their New Shepard rocket for the fourth time. As with the three previous tests, it'll ...

I'm always being asked by those who have just purchased a telescope when and where they can see the planet Saturn. Well, Saturday, June 18, is the night!

The UK's first government-funded astronaut, Tim Peake, returned from the space station, landing on board Soyuz TMA-19M with Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Kopra of NASA. The three crew mates spent more than 185 da...

The Soyuz space capsule has undocked from the International Space Station to carry an American, a Briton and a Russian back to Earth.

Tim Peake: Go army. Wonder why the International Space Station is in such great shape right now? #GoArmy ;) From left: Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams....

Watch replay of ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko fall back to Earth

Giant Ice Age species including elephant-sized sloths and powerful sabre-toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warmin...

Image gallery: ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today

Three crew members from the International Space Station returned to Earth at 5:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday after wrapping up 186 days in space and several NASA research studies in human health.