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NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 -- sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).

The launch of NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) spacecraft is scheduled for 8:24 a.m. EST Monday, Dec. 12. News briefings, live launch commentary, photo opportunities and other media events will ...

DigitalGlobe has released the first picture from its latest high resolution commercial imaging satellite, launched three weeks ago. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Leedjia Svec at the Stylish STEM blog.

The first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft may fly a shorter mission than previously considered, with only a loop around the moon rather than an extended stay there. SpaceNews.com

The National Reconnaissance Office is set to take over some weather missions from the Air Force after the House of Representatives voted Thursday to give the agency "the acquisition programs necessary to meet the nationa...

In this edition of Mobile Stargazing, we'll look at Venus' properties using planetary apps, explain the motion of the planet through the sky, and provide some tips for observing and photographing the "Evening Star."

ESA today concluded a two-day Council meeting at ministerial level in Lucerne, Switzerland. Ministers in charge for space matters from ESA's 22 member states plus Slovenia and Canada allocated €10.3 billion for space a...

New Horizons:

Galaxies are usually grouped into clusters, huge systems comprising up to thousands of millions of these objects, in whose interior are found the most massive galaxies in the universe. Until now scientists believed that ...

Galaxies are usually grouped into clusters, huge systems comprising up to thousands of millions of these objects, in whose interior are found the most massive galaxies in the universe. Until now scientists believed that ...

NASA Breaking News:

Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, is taking back its ancient moniker, Rigil Kentaurus, which means "foot of the centaur" in Arabic, according to Science, the online publication of the American Association for the ...

ESA today concluded a two-day Council meeting at ministerial level in Lucerne, Switzerland. Ministers in charge for space matters from ESA's 22 member states plus Slovenia and Canada allocated €10.3 billion for space a...

Europe approved an extra 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) Friday to resuscitate a life-seeking Mars rover project and keep its place on the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency said.

Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin was medically evacuated from the South Pole and flown to New Zealand, where he is recovering. Aldrin has fluid in his lungs, "but is responding well to antibiotics," the tour operator that or...

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in the new movie about 2 passengers who awake from hibernation 90 years too early on a spacecraft that is on a 120-year journey.

Replay of the media briefing at the close of ESA's Council meeting at Ministerial level, Lucerne, 2 December 2016

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is, ironically but shocking to no one who understands the majority party, quite anti-science. For years now, the committee and its chairman, Lamar Smith (R-Texas), ha...

Multiple scans from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite have been stitched together to create this complete image of Switzerland....