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The last crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia talk about their dreams of being astronauts and the spectacle of flying above the Earth in this retrospective.

The company said it selected Huntsville because of the presence of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. SpaceNews.com

Preliminary research results for the NASA One-Year Mission debuted last week at an annual NASA conference. Last March, two men landed back on Earth after having spent nearly one year in space. NASA and Roscosmos, the Rus...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX announced Sunday (Jan. 29) a significant shuffle to the Falcon 9 launch schedule, saying that a key NASA mission to resupply the space station is moving to the head of the line and will ...

American Astronomical Society:

A new instrument installed on the Keck Observatory allows astronomers to see exoplanets that are very close to their stars. The post Vortex Coronagraph A Game Changer For Seeing Close In Exoplanets appeared first on Univ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

The U.S. must be prepared for any Chinese aggression in space, said Gen. John Hyten, leader of U.S. Strategic Command. SpaceNews.com

A first in preparations for a manned mission to Mars, several key pieces of the Orion spacecraft project were combined to test how launch vibrations could influence astronauts' function.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Science fiction becomes reality with the invention of a hologram device.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "lost continent" under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (above) that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, which started about 200 million years a...

A new online tool will allow you use images taken from space to explore ancient archaeological sites and discover their hidden secrets.

Human spaceflight and robotic explorations image of the week: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet feeling objects in the Netherlands from space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

To compensate for its unfriendly chill, the coming nights offers the unusual beauty of two twilight spectacles: we are right in the midst of a nearly two-week-long duet of Venus and Mars at dusk and a trio of these two p...

Iridium announced Jan. 31 it has purchased an additional Falcon 9 launch from SpaceX that the satellite services company will share with a German-U.S. Earth science mission. SpaceNews.com

Why does this recap of "The Expanse" Season 1 star a variety of costumed, floating, ship-flying cats on elaborate tiny sets? Space.com has no idea, but is certainly not complaining.

Watch a unique recap of the first season of Syfy's "The Expanse"....with cats, lots of cats!

A recent analysis of data for millions of stars from the Gaia space mission show that many stars in the halo that surrounds the Milky Way travel in groups.. Astronomers report their discovery today in the international j...

The solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists have developed three models of how it happened.

On January 31, 2017, NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance to commemorate the crews of Apollo 1, and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other members of the NASA family who lost their lives furtheri...