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

Three crew members aboard the International Space Station are packing up their gear for a homecoming on Monday. NASA also decided to extend the mission of an astronaut living aboard the station since November....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over northern Serbia to the region of Vojvodina....

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

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Their stories this week: Rogue Black Hole! We use a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each we...

Buzz Aldrin, who became the second man to walk on the moon in 1969, once again made history last weekend. The world-famous octogenarian flew with the Thunderbirds at the Melbourne Air & Space Show in Melbourne, Florida, ...

If you ever wanted to travel with moonwalker Buzz Aldrin to a Mars colony, you'll soon have the chance to do so in virtual reality.

20,000 classrooms across the United States and Canada are growing tomatoes from the seeds that have traveled to Space and those that have stayed on the ground. They will not know where the seeds they used came from until...

At age 87, the second person to walk on the moon is still breaking records. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin joined the USAF Thunderbirds on Sunday (April 2) as the oldest participant in a flight.

A ~2000-foot (~650 m) asteroid named 2014 JO25 will fly by Earth on April 19, 2017. It will pass at a safe distance of ~1.1 million miles (1.8 million km).

Earth's mantle is made of solid rock that nonetheless circulates slowly over millions of years. Some geologists assume that this slow circulation would have wiped away any geochemical traces of Earth's early history long...

During April 2017 Jupiter is in opposition: it is at its closest to Earth and the hemisphere facing Earth is fully illuminated by the Sun. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope used this special configuration to capture an...

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are famous for engaging in complex behavior, from unlocking an aquarium tank and escaping to instantaneous skin camouflage to hide from predators. A new study suggests their evolutionary pa...

Our week through the lens: 3-7 April 2017

Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images.

New Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the Orion Nebula complex has revealed a stunning view of a stellar explosion.

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On the evening of April 7-8, 2017, the gas giant will be at opposition with Earth and appear very bright in the night sky. It's alright if you have cloudy skies because the Jupiter show continues all month

Coding skills are becoming more useful than ever in today's professional landscape, but learning how to program can often feel like a daunting task. But the Learn to Code 2017 Bundle has you covered.

On December 3, 2015, the LISA Pathfinder mission blasted into space carrying the most stable spacecraft thruster system ever qualified for use in space. Developed by NASA JPL, the Space Technology 7 (ST-7) Disturbance Re...

A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Eart...

You don't need to be a professional astronomer to find new worlds orbiting distant stars. Darwin mechanic and amateur astronomer Andrew Grey this week helped to discover a new exoplanet system with at least four orbiting...