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With rival companies SpaceX and United Launch Alliance making serious plans to get to Mars, NASA's future role in the exploration of Mars may be about to change. As it stands now, NASA is the only organization to have a ...

Multi-hued clouds are seen from approximately 250 miles overhead on the International Space Station....

Composite image of hurricane Matthew over Florida, from 12:00 UTC on Friday, 7 October 2016....

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have photographed the central region of NGC 247 -- a spiral galaxy located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern constellation of C...

One phenomenon capable of dealing a death blow to life on Earth is the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) --the most powerful explosions in the universe, with a typical GRB releasing penetrating electromagnetic radiation with much en...

Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling life and science on The Mars Society's Twin Desert-Arctic Analog simulation. See what it's like.

I don't plug stuff much on the blog for a lot of reasons, but one is that I only want to endorse things I truly, actually like. If I just shill for a bunch of stuff there's not much reason to trust me, but if I save it f...

Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Matthew during several passes over the major storm, as it made its way north through the Caribbean Sea during the week of Oct. 3....

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Hurricane Matthew's center was near the coast of South Carolina during the morning of Oct. 8, 2016, when NASA-NOAA satellites passed overhead.