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A “ride-out” team of 139 people is staying through the two-day shutdown  --

The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and made its way towards Florida....

A visible image showing powerful Hurricane Matthew and Nicole on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. EDT was captured by NOAA's GOES-East satellite....

Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it woul...

Our ability to forecast the weather here on Earth has saved countless lives from the onslaught of hurricanes and typhoons. We've gotten better at predicting space weather, too, and that has allowed us to protect sensitiv...

Mr. Luigi Scatteia from PricewaterhouseCoopers, presenting the results of an European Space Agency (ESA) study to assess the socio-economic impact of the International Space Station (ISS), at the Space for inspiration ev...

Russia's space agency says the technical problem that delayed a planned manned launch to the International Space Station last month has been identified and the launch has been rescheduled for Oct. 19.

Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star....

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Image of category 4 hurricane Matthew over Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, captured by EUMETSAT's Metop-B polar-orbiting satellite at 15:52 UTC on Monday, 4 October 2016....

If you're like a lot of people, you don't own a telescope but still have a passionate curiosity for what's going on over your head. Good news! There's lots to see up there without any equipment at all. This is the premis...

Dione probably has a vast ocean about 60 miles (100 kilometers) beneath its icy shell, according to a new study. Intriguingly, Dione's putative ocean is likely in contact with the moon's rocky core, team members said.

Today: ENERGY (Astronaut's Energy Requirement for Long-Term Space Flight): Today, FE-5 completed Day 7 of the 11 day ENERGY experiment. In addition to today's water and urine samples, the 11 day ENERGY experiment require...

A miniaturised biotech unit developed for the International Space Station is improving medical diagnoses on Earth with affordable automation of small-scale diagnostics.

Our week through the lens: 3-7 October 2016

"Further progress against infectious and chronic diseases may continue boosting average life expectancy, but not maximum lifespan," said Jan Vijg, professor and chair of genetics, the Lola and Saul Kramer Chair in Molecu...

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, researchers at France's CNRS research institute said Thursday.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the following visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander module entering and descending through the Martian atmosphere to land on Mars....

A University of Hertfordshire astrophysicist has created animated sequences of cosmic phenomena for renowned Hollywood filmmaker Terrence Malick's new film, Voyage of Time.

Operations image of the week: Last command being sent to Rosetta

A strange object that astronomers think is a wandering black hole that came from a small galaxy falling into a larger one was discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. The ...

On Wednesday, Blue Origin had a helluva day. After a handful of short holds, the company's New Shepard rocket lifted off for the fifth time from the Texas desert proving grounds, heading up into space. Like the previous ...