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The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this image on Oct. 16, from i...

In this long exposure photograph, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome....

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky docked with the International Space Station today after a two-day flight in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft.

In this episode of StarTalk, Neil Tyson explores the language of the universe through the lens of self-taught math genius and college dropout Ramanujan, the subject of the recent movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. Not onl...

The nation's most advanced weather satellite ever awaits a sunset liftoff.

Following a month-long mission, two Chinese astronauts returned to Earth, completing the country's longest mission yet. The crew departed the Tiangong-2 space station on Thursday and touched down under parachute a day la...

In 2013, the European Space Agency launched the Gaia astronomical observatory. Its mission: Map the positions and motions of a billion stars in our galaxy. Yes, a billion. The first data release was pretty cool, and some...

Just underneath the surface of many famous paintings, such as those by Leonardo da Vinci, is another hidden painting. Sometimes, these ghostly images, known as pentimento, are apparent to the naked eye if you look closel...

The powerful new GOES-16 satellite, which will provide the best-ever looks at storms and other severe weather, has taken to the skies.

The NOAA satellite was launched by the United Launch Alliance rocket on Nov. 19, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will be a 'game changer' for weather forecasting.

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Video: astronauts on Chinese space station Tiangong-2 greet ESA and Thomas Pesquet

The International Space Station received three new crewmembers today (Nov. 19), with the arrival of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and co-sponsor of space resources legislation that passed last year, said Nov. 17 he wants the government to do a better job collaborating ...

The international community needs to establish expected patterns of behavior in space, despite ongoing worldwide political tension, top Pentagon space experts said. SpaceNews.com