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Two of the NASA astronauts training for the first flight tests for the agency's Commercial Crew Program visited with employees during an Aug. 11 event at Kennedy Space Center....

NASA’s first sample-return mission to an asteroid could be vital for understanding life’s origins and shaping its future --

A new photo of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft depicts the planet's northern hemisphere as a swirling mess of green, blue and purple clouds. What looks like a colossal oil slick on the otherwise yellow-tinted p...

At what was once a remote desert outpost with spotty cell service and little infrastructure other than the shell of a quarter-billion-dollar futuristic hangar, Christine Anderson has watched the transformation of Spacepo...

"They were the first intelligent beings on the planet," said Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, founding President and Distinguished Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). What could the first intel...

A new discovery hints that our solar system has more than one orbital plane, and these other planes might be teeming with mysterious planetoids hiding in previously unexplored places. A strange object, approximately 124 ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in space have yet to find a trace of dark matter, the results are h...

Maxim Senin captured the peak of the the annual meteor shower (Aug. 11-12, 2016) on Templin Highway near Castaic, California. He used a Canon 70D camera to snap several 'shooting stars' light up the night sky.

One of the funny things about living on a big spinning ball of rock and metal in space is that what you see depends on where you are. Where I live, in Colorado, the Sun rises every day, makes an arc in the sky, then sets...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Scarcely three weeks after the mesmerizing midnight launch and landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that delivered over two tons of science and critical hardware to the space station for NASA, t...