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China could send astronauts to its space station for more than a year at a time once it goes operational in 2022, a senior project designer told state media.

Some childhood cancer patients will chat Friday with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station wearing a hand-painted spacesuit they helped decorate.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

What did you do during your summer this year? Award-winning astrophotographer Damian Peach spent much of his 2016 summer capturing incredibly clear images of Mars during opposition, when the Red Planet was closest to Ear...

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By examining infrared images taken by NASA satellites orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, space archaeologists have identified 17 pyramids buried deep under the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis, Egypt. Tanis, abandoned cen...

The Japanese satellite launched in September 2006 and has delivered amazing imagery ever since.

"We've used Titan's gravity throughout the mission to sling Cassini around the Saturn system," said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL. "Now Titan is coming through for us once again, providing a way for Cassini ...

Breaking up isn't hard to do if you're a comet. They're fragile creatures subject to splitting, cracking and vaporizing when heated by the Sun and yanked on by its powerful gravitational pull. Recently, the Hubble Space ...

Supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are found at the centers of galaxies. Many of these galactic behemoths are hidden within a thick doughnut-shape ring of dust and gas known as a...

Officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and NASA held a live Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) discussion at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland....

NASA has astronauts in training under extreme weather conditions of Antarctica to prepare them for deep space and planetary explorations such as the manned journey to Mars. The preparation includes the astronauts undergo...

Tiangong 2 will develop expertise for a future space station and conduct science experiments --

When it comes to exoplanets, astronomers have realized that they only know the properties of the planets they discover as well as they know the properties of the stars being orbited. For a planet's size, precisely charac...

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Our week through the lens: 12-16 September 2016

Today: NanoRack Cubesat Deployer (NRCSD) #9 Deployment: Overnight, ground controllers deployed the remaining three of four pairs of Planet Lab DoveSats from the NRCSD #9....

ESA's next astronaut mission will be launched in November

Southern China's Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the country. Located in Jiangxi province, this lake is an important habitat for migrating Siberian cranes, many of which spend the winter there....

Come October, the private space company Blue Origin will put on quite a show. The company has already flown its New Shepard rocket four times into space--above the arbitrary but common-sense 100 kilometer height above Ea...

Replays of the two-day event exploring the benefits of human spaceflight for our world