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An astronaut holds a glass jar half-full of water in the near-zero gravity of space. How does the water look inside the jar? Does it form a single ball, sit on the bottom of the jar, or cling to its walls? For decades, n...

After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in summer of 2020 and arrive o...

NASA has spotted an enormous black blotch growing on the surface of the Sun. It looks eerie, but this dark region is nothing to fear, though it does signal potential disruption to satellite communications. The dark regio...

Using a specialized capture mechanism, the European Space Agency plans to lasso a large abandoned satellite drifting through space and pull it down to burn up in the atmosphere.

NASA Breaking News:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Every July and August, skywatchers are treated to a 'cosmic' light show from above. The Perseid Meteor shower, which radiates from the Perseus constellation, peaks in mid-August with the ability to rain down more than 60...

One of our resident "Star Trek" experts, Marshall Honorof, recently appeared on an episode of the "Random Trek" podcast to discuss a TV episode from the Trek universe, and why Captain Picard doesn't just shut down that p...

The European Space Agency on July 12 said it would release 10 million euros ($11 million) in support to Reaction Engines Ltd., whose space plane/hypersonic aircraft engine project in 2013 won substantial British governme...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Our week through the lens: 11-15 July 2016

I've seen (and posted) so many pictures of spiral galaxies that it takes a lot to really get me to say, "Wow". WOW. This image stopped me in my tracks. It's NGC 6814, a large spiral galaxy about 75 million light years fr...

The world's first engineering study of an unmanned spaceship to explore one of the nearer stars was made by a technical group of the British Interplanetary Society between 1973-77. The target selected for the exercise wa...

Yesterday's headlines reported that China's first space station Tiangong-1 was "in freefall," "hurtling towards Earth" and would "rain molten metal down onto Earth." The eight-ton Tiangong-1 serves as both a manned labor...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the very eastern part of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, in this natural-colour image....

Questions about jurisdiction, property rights and damages by space junk are covered under various treaties and principles.

One year ago Richard Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator and a professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), was sitting in Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborat...

Look up into a dark sky in mid-August to see more than 150 meteors per hour --

Look up into a dark sky in mid-August to see more than 150 meteors per hour --

The sun has been making some anxious faces lately -- but you'd be worried, too, if a huge hole had just opened up on your head.

China's second orbiting space lab, Tiangong-2, was delivered over the weekend from Beijing to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, to undergo assembling and testing processes in preparation for a mid-September launch.