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Two astronauts are cleaning up after a spacewalk while a pair of cosmonauts are getting a Soyuz spacecraft ready for departure after the Labor Day weekend. On the ground, three new crew members are preparing for a launch...

Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way's halo, Notre Dame astronomers have produced the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed more than 13.5 billion years ago.

Today: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) Ingress and Sampling: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Rubins ingressed the BEAM and collected the deployed Radiation Area Monitor (RAM) dosimeters and performed Microbial Air Sampl...

Retrieval of a space-rock sample would be proof of concept for mining metals and water --

Now available is the August 17, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Dan Rasky (NASA ARC) who discussed "NASA Space Portal - A Framework for Space Exploration and Development in t...

Two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, on the French-Swiss border, appear to confirm the existence of a subatomic particle, the Madala boson, that for the...

A possibly Earth-like planet has been found within the habitable zone of humanity's closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, and astronomers think the newfound world could potentially support life. Here are five more ...

Scientists are speculating that virtually all of Earth's life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury, approximately 100 million...

(University of the Witwatersrand) Using data from a series of experiments that led to the discovery and first exploration of the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012, scientists at...

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the debut of "Star Trek," the U.S. Postal Service is launching a new set of Forever stamps dedicated to the hit television series, which first aired on Sept. 8, 1966.

Pinpointing lander’s cold resting place on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko will be a boon to researchers --

China is accelerating efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters, joining an exclusive cl...

You can learn all about the asteroid-sampling mission of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft before the probe blasts off Thursday evening (Sept. 8).

Sixty-five million years ago, disaster struck the Earth. An asteroid or comet around 10km in diameter slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

NASA is awarding approximately $3 million in grants to three informal education organizations to help inspire the next generation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and careers as the agency prog...

NASA has awarded a contract to Alphaport, Inc., of Cleveland, for safety and mission assurance support services at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Headquarters in Washington and other sites supported by Kennedy prog...

Freddie Mercury, the frontman from the rock band Queen, is getting his name etched in the night sky. No, they're not naming another planet after him. That would be confusing. Instead, an asteroid will bear the name of th...

BlackSky Global: Nick Merski is the Constellation Program Manager for BlackSky, working to launch the planned 60-satellite constellation. The first two microsats, Pathfinder 1 and 2, will be launched into sun synchronous...

NASA is going after an asteroid this week like never before.

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the icy satellites of the...

In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange....