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The international iceberg patrol service set up after the sinking of the Titanic is now able to track drifting ice from orbit more swiftly through ESA-backed cloud computing.

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Hoping to recover quickly after suffering a calamitous launch pad explosion of their Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral some two months ago, SpaceX is aiming to resume launches of the booster in mid-December, said company...

Today we know that planets form from vast discs of gas and dust encircling newborn stars, known as protoplanetary discs that can extend for thousands of millions of kilometers. Over time, the particles in these protoplan...

Full moons are good reason to look up - and the one on Nov. 14 is no exception. But here's why you likely won't see something shockingly different from other full moons you've observed over the years.

The birth of massive stars is still a mystery to us....

With the election over, there are concerns over at NASA at how a Trump presidency might affect their research and exploration efforts The post Where Will President-Elect Trump Take American Space Endeavours? appeared fir...

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behavior of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other observatories suggest that t...

Today: Veg-03 Operations: The crew checked and photo documented the status of the plants in the Veggie facility, and evaluated the plant pillows to determine if additional watering is required....

Criticism by one NASA advisory committee of SpaceX's plans to conduct commercial crew missions has also raised questions about the roles and responsibilities of those advisory committees.

The intricate structure of Saturn's iconic rings is revealed in amazing detail in a stunning new photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The growing space debris problem may have a flip side: What if we could recycle the junk for components of a mission to the Red Planet?

The actress who portrayed "Rey" from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy give their thoughts on the achievements made by women at NASA.

Since ancient times, human beings have been staring at the night sky and been amazed by the celestial objects looking back at them. Whereas these objects were once thought to be divine in nature, and later mistaken for c...

Based on computer simulations, astrophysicists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, conclude that the comet Chury did not obtain its duck-like form during the formation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Altho...

In the early 20th century, Harvard employed women as "computers" whose job it was to compare photographic plates of the night sky. Their work helped lay out some of the fundamental assumptions of astronomy.

In the 1970s, astronomers became aware of a compact radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy - which they named Sagittarius A. After many decades of observation and mounting evidence, it was theorized that the ...

November's supermoon (a full moon that occurs when the satellite is at its closest point to Earth during the lunar orbit) will be the biggest supermoon in about 70 years. November's full moon is also known in North Ameri...

A trio of planet-forming swirls have been imaged around young stars, revealing the baby pictures of three faraway systems.

Here's a look at some of the most pressing space issues that President-elect Trump may face, from the direction of NASA's human-spaceflight program to the regulation of asteroid mining.

A beautiful full moon will grace our skies on Monday November 14 this year. Full moons always rise around sunset, so look for it towards the east during evening twilight.