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Top off your Earth Day celebrations by getting outside tonight (April 22) and watching a parade of falling stars: The Lyrid meteor shower is still visible tonight, according to NASA.

In celebration of Earth Day, National Geographic has released several pictures of national parks taken from space.

An agreement between France and its restive South American territory French Guiana, home to Europe's spaceport, has resolved a month-long dispute that had prevented any launch activity since mid-March. SpaceNews.com

The HiRise camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured color images of the Opportunity's 2004 Hole In One landing site inside Eagle Crater. The post Exciting New Views Of Opportunity’s Remarkable Land...

Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson works outside the International Space Station during her record-breaking eighth spacewalk....

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On April 10, Italy's Mount Etna unleashed a sudden and violent eruption (called a paroxysmal episode,) for the third time in 2011. According to the Instituto Nazionale de Geofisica e Vulcanologie (INGV; National Institut...

A unique international study has debunked the popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in much better ecological shape than the rest of the world. The study, published recently in PLOS Biology and involvin...

"I was baffled when I saw the initial data for iPTF16geu from the Palomar Observatory. It looked like a normal Type Ia supernova but it was much brighter than it should have been given its distance from us. The rapid... ...

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

The S.S. John Glenn, Orbital ATK's seventh Cygnus cargo ship to deliver supplies and science for the crew on board the International Space Station, completed a four-day rendezvous to the orbiting laboratory on Saturday m...

Scientists and science allies are gathering today (April 22) in Washington, D.C., and in hundreds of cities around the world, for the 2017 March for Science. Check out some of the best space signs and more from the demon...

A supply ship bearing John Glenn's name arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday.

Scientists and science enthusiasts (along with their curious kids) turned out in droves to make their voices heard.

An upcoming launch of a government spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office will mark the first time the U.S. Department of Defense has used SpaceX for a mission.

China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, successfully completed docking with an orbiting space lab on Saturday, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center said.

On April 22, people in hundreds of cities around the world will take part in the March for Science.