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After an intensive four month investigation into why a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded without warning on the launch pad last September, the company today announced the failures likely cause as well as plans of a rapid r...

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Thomas Pesquet: People have been dotting the desert with irrigated fields in Jordan...

Today's "Galaxy" Stream --"The World-Changing Discovery of Gravitational Waves" (VIEW VIDEO) NASA --2017 "The Year of the Great American Total Eclipse" (VIEW VIDEO) NASA Proposes "Mars Ice Dome" for Future Manned Mission...

It's "going to be the most observed, most filmed and photographed, most studied and documented, and, probably, the most appreciated of all eclipses in human history," said Lika Guhathakurta, lead scientist for the Living...

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Astronauts up on the International Space Station are starting the new year with a pair of spacewalks.

The question that intrigued the great American physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life was: "Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?" He suggeste...

This year will remember NASA's historic Apollo program, beginning with the terrible tragedy of Apollo 1.

The Andromeda "nebula," photographed at the Yerkes Observatory around 1900 is shown above. To modern eyes, this object is clearly a galaxy. At the time, though, it was described as "a mass of glowing gas," its true ident...

Move over Tang, there is a new way to drink like the astronauts. The public can now own the same style "Space Cup" as used aboard the International Space Station and sip their favorite beverage, powdered orange drink or ...

Everything you need to know about gravitational waves. In February 2016 scientists announced the first detection of gravitational waves by humans on Earth. This was a huge, world changing, discovery. The gravitational wa...

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video program. In this special edition, Sentinel-2 Mission Manager Bianca Hoersch and Sentinel-2 Project Manager Francois Spoto join the show to tell us about thei...

The Expedition 50 crew aboard the International Space Station spent the week working on an array of science, maintenance and spacewalking preparation to close out 2016....

Bridenstine, an Oklahoma Republican active on space issues in the House, has reportedly talked with Vice President-elect Mike Pence about the position, although no final decision has been made by the transition team. Spa...

He died20 years ago, but while he is widely remembered as a brilliant communicator, he was no less brilliant a scientist. --

Today: Fluid Shifts - Baseline Imaging: The first of three 49Soyuz subjects performed their Baseline Imaging measurements with assistance from both onboard operators and ground remote guiders....

"The planet could be an 'ocean planet'with an ocean covering its entire surface, and similar to some icy moons around Jupiter or Saturn," according to the international team at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS...

"The planet could be an 'ocean planet'with an ocean covering its entire surface, and similar to some icy moons around Jupiter or Saturn," according to the international team at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia have discovered a strong outburst of the embedded young stellar object (YSO) designated UKIDSS-J185318.36+012454.5. This newly detected event...

"You see things at a different scale," says astronaut Jeff Williams, while talking about how beautiful our planet is from orbit. He spent a record 534 days in space on several missions for NASA.