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As members of Congress took credit for NASA funding levels in a fiscal year 2017 omnibus spending bill, the agency's science leadership is examining how those funds will affect its programs.

The unmanned Cassini spacecraft, after completing two passes in the vast, unexplored area between Saturn's rings has discovered not much else there, researchers at NASA said.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This week SpaceX blasted their first top secret surveillance satellite to orbit for America's spy chiefs at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - affording magnificent viewing and imagery from...

Arianespace on May 4 completed its first launch since the end of French Guiana's five-week protest during which demonstrators seeking France's attention blocked access to the Europe's South American spaceport.

The journal Science announced the winners of its second annual data-visualization competition.

A giant meteor impact on Earth nearly 2 billion years ago triggered more explosive and long-lived volcanic eruptions than previously thought, a new study finds.

"Cities on Venus" --Extinct Technological Life May Have Existed Eons Ago in Our Solar System NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Poised For 2nd Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings --Into "The Big Empty" "Disaster Sanctuaries" --Reco...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has successfully passed the center of curvature test at Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over part of the western Netherlands on 16 March, with the capital city of Amsterdam at the centre of the image....

These stars and planets will become visible when America's daytime sky darkens on August 21st, but should you bother looking for them?

The Mercury program launched the first Americans into space, four on suborbital flights, and two who orbited the Earth.

Step aside, Star-Lord - there's another superhero in the universe, and it's "guarding" far more galaxies than you can even fathom.

Gullies eroded into the steep inner slope of an impact crater at this location appear perfectly pristine in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)....