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A powerful hurricane moving up Florida's east coast Oct. 7 caused some damage to NASA, military and commercial facilities at Cape Canaveral, but far less than what some had feared prior to the storm's arrival. SpaceNews....

A raging Martian dust storm is expected to sweep across the Red Planet within the next few months, according to a study that found a way to predict these otherwise variable weather events.

Satellite insurers on Oct. 5 said the Sept. 1 failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket while preparing a static-fire test, which destroyed a $200 million satellite, wiped out 20 years of insurance premiums for prelaunch cover...

SpaceX is getting closer to finding the cause of a September pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9, and the company's president remains confident the vehicle will return to flight later this year. SpaceNews.com

In her first episode as a host of StarTalk All-Stars, astrophysicist and cosmologist Janna Levin reviews the discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO, and she's brought along the perfect science guest: Rainer "Ray" Weiss...

On September 26th, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope imaged water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erup...

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called "space brain." UCI's Charles Limoli and colleagues found that ...

Along with the visible light and warmth constantly emitted by our sun comes a whole spectrum of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation that streams toward Earth. A new CubeSat - a miniature satellite that provides a low-cost pl...

Hurricane Matthew tore the top off a historic rocket display, damaged the roof of a house used by astronauts and toppled a space shuttle gantry arm on exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA is continuing to...

30 million years from now, a massive cloud of gas will collide with the Milky Way. NASA astronomers are studying the incoming cloud and learning more about its origin. Since astronomers discovered the Smith Cloud plummet...

The epoch when the very first stars appeared is a key period of cosmic history. These stars began the manufacture of the chemical elements (those heavier than hydrogen and helium) and their light began the reionization o...

Think about this for a moment: Would you vote for someone running for Congress --or to be President of the United States-- who thought the Earth was flat? And I don't mean someone who's just flirting with the idea, but s...

The two spiral arms winding towards the bright centre might deceive you into thinking you are looking at a galaxy a bit like our Milky Way. But the object starring in this image is of a different nature: PK 329-02.2 is a...

The spiral arms in this Hubble picture may remind you of a Milky-Way-like galaxy, but they are remnants of a dying star

This Hubble image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 247. NGC 247 is a relatively small spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Cetus (The Whale). Lying at a distance of around 11 million lig...

Western researchers have released footage of a basketball-sized fireball seen widely by observers throughout southern Ontario early Friday morning, Oct. 7.

Astronauts on the International Space Station captured a series of incredible star trail images on Oct. 3, 2016, as they orbited at 17,500 miles per hour.

Comet dust from the Rosetta mission is providing insights into the origins of our solar system. A research project focusing on the dust, which is supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and being carried at the Space ...

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called "space brain."

Talk about "Beam me up!" The latest entry in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise -- "Star Trek Beyond"-- has been "beamed up" to the International Space Station for real-life space explorers to enjoy as they live a...

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is a veteran of two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions but it was a long road from growing up on Long Island to the Space Shuttle.

The latest secretive mission of the United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has cruised beyond 500 days in Earth orbit since its launch into orbit last year.