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Members of the successful Apollo space program are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to a Florida State University res...

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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Supermassive black holes do not give off any of their own light, hence the word "black" in their name. However, many black holes pull in, or accrete, surrounding material, and emit powerful bursts of X-rays. Collectively...

NASA and other organizations do regular scans of the sky to catalog any small bodies that are at risk of crashing into our planet.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Following a lengthy firing of its powerful engine this morning, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on track to arrive at the Red Planet in October.

The NROL-61 spy satellite launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning (July 28) at 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT), riding into space atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.

A Chinese rocket re-entered the atmosphere near California late Wednesday night around the same time many people shared video on social media of a mysterious bright object streaking across the night sky.

NASA has selected Chenega Infinity, LLC of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide protective services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Members of the successful Apollo space program are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to a Florida State University res...

Hottest temperatures ever seen on the planet found above the gigantic storm  --

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched a National Reconnaissance Office NROL-61 satellite this morning from Space Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida....

Members of the successful Apollo space program are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to a Florida State University res...

We're in for a celestial show from two of the sky's glitterati this week. On Friday morning July 29 around 10:00 UT (5 a.m. CDT), the crescent Moon will occult the star Aldebaran from the eastern and southern U.S. south ...

NASA astronauts on the Apollo missions to the moon are the only humans to have flown beyond the protective magnetic shielding of Earth -- and a new study shows that exposure to deep-space radiation may have taken a toll ...

380 light years from Earth lies a very bizarre binary star. Called AR Scorpii (or AR Sco for short) It's been known for decades, but was masquerading as a relatively humdrum variable, a single star that changes its brigh...

New science unloaded from the latest SpaceX Dragon to visit the International Space Station is under way. The variety of new and ongoing space research is designed to benefit life on Earth and astronauts on long duration...

Operations image of the week: A happy mission control team at ESA just after ExoMars completed its first deep-space engine firing en route to the Red Planet

The NROL-61 mission launched aboard the United Launch Alliance rocket on July 28, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It is on a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) mission.