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Station Commander Jeff Williams passed astronaut Scott Kelly, also a former station commander, for most cumulative days living and working in space by a NASA astronaut (520 days and counting). Williams is scheduled to la...

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for a mission that will address high-priority science goals for the agency's Journey to Mars.

Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Back in April, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking unveiled Project Starshot. As the latest venture by Breakthrough Initiatives, Starshot was conceived with the aims of sending a tiny sp...

Keck Observatory:

In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide....

See amazing photos of U.S. National Parks from space as seen by NASA astronaut Jeff Williams to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in August 2016.

A press event was held in Beijing, China that signaled the launching of a public competitive campaign to get a name and logo for the country's first robotic Mars probe.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars--some Sun-like and others approximately double that size--and discovered that the larger variety have surprisingly ...

"Red dwarfs - the dim bulbs of the cosmos - have received scant attention by SETI scientists in the past," said Jon Richard, of SETI, a private, non-profit organization which stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intell...

Because a plant isn't green doesn't mean it can't photosynthesise as well as its more usual counterpart, but when measured by satellites, these non-green varieties skew results on plant health. FLEX is different. Experim...

Humans have been sending animals to space for almost 70 years, but the questions they hope to answer have evolved in that time.

"The echoing of FRBs is a very direct probe of dark matter," Munoz said. "While gravitational waves might 'indicate' that dark matter is made of black holes, there are other ways to produce very-massive black holes with ...

NASA's Jeff Williams recently became the first astronaut to surpass 520 days in Space. It was a record previously held by Scott Kelly.

(Phys.org)--A small team of researchers at Harvard University who are part of the Breakthrough Starshot team has been testing the likely damage to an interstellar spacecraft traveling at approximately one-fifth the speed...

An Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, has delivered two telecom satellites, Intelsat-33e and Intelsat-36, into their planned orbits.

Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a summer visit to ESTEC's Orbital Robotics Laboratory, experiencing weightless motion in 2D - courtesy of a friction-free air-bearing platform combined with a virtual reality ...

In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide.

The other day I posted an article about how ridiculously warm July 2016 was globally. Like every month for 10 months in a row, it was the hottest such month since records have been reliably kept (starting in 1880). This ...

Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams established a new record for most time spent in space by a NASA astronaut today, surpassing 520 days in space over his four missions....