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The Aerojet Rocketdyne engine was test fired at NASA's Stennis Space Center for 7.5 minutes on Aug. 18, 2016. The RS-25 was originally a Space Shuttle engine and is being upgraded for the Space Launch System rocket.

The new NASA rocket being developed for missions beyond low-Earth orbit receives the hollywood treatment. Astronauts, played by actors, are prepped for the first flight of the rocket and the launch is animated.

The third and fourth satellites in the U.S. military's Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket at 12:52 a.m. EDT Friday (Aug. 19) from Florida's Cape Ca...

Now available is the July 6, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Tibor Balint (Royal College of Art -- Innovative Design Engineering/JPL) who discussed "Design Space for Space De...

An ESA tracking station has acquired signals from the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, across more than 1.4 billion km of space.

International Astronautical Federation: Elon Musk to Speak at IAC 2016 The 67th International Astronautical Congress, to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 26-30 September 2016 will welcome SpaceX founder, CEO, and Lea...

By analyzing the giant voids of the cosmos, scientists now have more precise maps of matter in the universe, a new study finds. This strategy of looking at what's not there (as opposed to what's actually present) might h...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NGC 7129 is a fascinating and terribly lovely object. It's a stellar nursery, a site of active star formation, buried deep within an invisible cloud of very cold molecular gas and dust. Luckily for us, a handful of massi...

"Aside from the shapes of the continents, geologists had paleontological evidence that fossil plants and animals in Africa and South America were closely related, as well as unique volcanic rocks suggestive of a common s...

Science fiction truly turned into reality in October 1957 when Sputnik was launched - humankind's first step beyond the Earth. Since then, progress has been rapid. A significant number of men and women have now travelled...

The crew of the Raza investigates a space station in distress in a new clip from the reality-bending eighth episode of "Dark Matter" season 2, airing tonight (Aug. 19) on Syfy channel.

A stellar explosion witnessed by Chinese astronomers in the 4th century has for years been associated with a supernova remnant known as G11.2-0.3, but new evidence shows the two are actually not related at all.

Astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station this morning to install a docking port that will allow private space taxies to link up with the station on future missions.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

It's relatively common to find debris from rocket launches in the waters off Cape Canaveral in Florida, but divers exploring the seabed recently uncovered artifacts from an age of exploration long before America's space ...

The Blue Cut fire in California is hot. That heat allowed thermal sensors aboard the Landsat 8 satellite to capture a glowing image of the blaze at night.

The vast majority of matter in the universe is plasma: electrically charged gas. Scientists are untangling how dust interacts with plasma both in space and experimentally closer to home.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Speculating about what aliens look like has kept children, film producers and scientists amused for decades. If they exist, will extra terrestrials turn out to look similar to us, or might they take a form beyond our wil...

A new port for commercial crew vehicles was robotically removed from the back of the SpaceX Dragon Wednesday night. The International Docking Adapter was placed in position for its installation Friday morning to a pressu...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: