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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL - America's pioneering astronauts who braved the perils of the unknown and put their lives on the line at the dawn of the space age atop mighty rockets that propelled our hopes an...

NASA has awarded the Support for Atmospheres, Modeling, and Data Assimilation (SAMDA) contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc., of Lanham, Maryland. This contract will support the atmospheric science and data a...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft its moved toward its encapsulation into the upper stage of its Soyuz booster Nov. 9. at Baikonur Cosmodrome....

The brightest moon in almost 69 years is lighting up the sky in a treat for star watchers around the globe.

Space Habitat designs are enormous, high-tech structures. Carl Sagan had a different idea: comets as space habitats. The post Carl Sagan’s Crazy Idea: Life Inside A Comet? appeared first on Universe Today.

High above the surface, Earth's magnetic field constantly deflects incoming supersonic particles from the sun. These particles are disturbed in regions just outside of Earth's magnetic field - and some are reflected into...

SETI Institute:

Today: Group Combustion Leak Check: The crew performed additional Group Combustion Experiment Module (GCEM) troubleshooting today, and completed a leak check of the Gaseous Nitrogen (GN2) supply line and associated Quick...

Humanity is still years away from landing on Mars, but the first documentary to look back at that achievement is complete. "MARS" on the National Geographic Channel chronicles the first mission to the Red Planet.

GOES-R will provide a “super-high-definition” view of Earth’s weather --

The Cambridge University phycicist Lord Martin Rees gives humanity only a 50/50 chance of making it through the century. With such unfriendly odds, Norway has given a beautiful gift to the future of the world. No matter ...

ESA's Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighborhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure, origin and evolution....

Hey, have you heard about today's "Supermoon"? If you have, then chances are you're heard a lot of hype about it being superclose and superbright and super, uh, super. Except not so much. I mean, the stories are accurate...

Any intelligent aliens humans manage to contact probably won't look much like you or me, or the squid-like creatures in the new film "Arrival."

NASA used a briefing about the agency's next Earth science mission to also emphasize the importance of that research in general, given concerns the next administration may seek to slash funding for it.

The November "supermoon" is extra close to Earth, providing an extraordinary sight for skywatchers. NASA's Noah Petro explains what makes this moon so special.

Space Science Image of the Week: The three closest pictures of Rosetta's comet taken by the navigation camera in September

In October 2016, the ASTRI telescope prototype, (Image 1) a novel, dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder telescope design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), passed its biggest test yet by demonstrating a consta...

This month's full moon came the closest to Earth that it's been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory.

This month's full moon came the closest to Earth that it has been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory Sunday night (Nov. 13).

Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, observatories and beaches Monday to get a glimpse of the closest "supermoon" to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap dramatic pictures.