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Today: Dragon Operations: The crew was scheduled to ingress and configure Dragon for on-orbit operations today, however, these tasks were completed yesterday....

Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula Kevin Heng of the University of Bern, Switzerland, gets his results thousands of times faster than using conventional computer codes. The a...

The most sensitive search yet for the mystery substance draws a blank after 20 months --

Our week through the lens: 18-22 July 2016

Links between astronomy, geological events and the birth of human civilization are explored in the new series, premiering July 22, 2016 on CuriosityStream.

Space Potatoes win! The Bellvue, Washington-based Odle Middle School rocketry team took first place in the International Rocketry Challenge July 15, precisely launching a rocket and landing its precious cargo: two raw eg...

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:

In the second it takes to read these words, 65 billion neutrinos will shoot through every square centimeter of your body....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The island of Tongatapu and the nearby smaller islands - all part of the Kingdom of Tonga archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean - are pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 23 May....

U.S. Air Force Space Command has released a new white paper that formally outlines Gen. John Hyten's plan to train satellite operators to fight through a war in space.

Autonomous robots capable of walking, swimming and climbing, will replicate insects, birds, animals and even humans on future missions of space exploration within decades, according to a new UK-RAS Network white paper le...

Most of us don't give much thought to drops of liquid that end up outside our drinking glasses. But physicists care a lot about liquid droplets, and study their whole lifespans--from the first splash or drip to the momen...

Solar wind forms the energy source for aurora explosions. How does the Earth's magnetosphere take in the energy of the solar wind? An international team led by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Naritoshi Kitamura (ISAS/JAXA) analyzed...

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

4,500-meter range pushes watery clouds upward in the strange “Fountain of Aphrodite” phenomenon --

In a Q&A at the with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the actors are tested on their knowledge of the space agency.

If our only satellite vanished in the blink of an eye, would you notice? Does it even matter? Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains.

"Star Trek Beyond," which premieres today (July 22), opens with a very confusing scenario for Trekkies: A captain of a Federation starship is actually sick of space -- enough to want to take a desk job.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series "Star Trek" has captured the public's imagination with the signature phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone before."...

NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission is moving ahead with its daring 2018 launch to study the sun's super-heated atmosphere.

NASA has released a pretty amazing video: It consists of over 3000 images of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the DSCOVR spacecraft. DSCOVR is in a special orbit, 1.5 million kilometers clo...