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Two generations of reusable space planes came face to face -- or nose to tail, rather -- over the weekend.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The filagree of atmospheric patterns at Jupiter's south pole bears an eerie resemblance to a phenomenon here on Earth When I spotted this image of Jupiter on NASA's website, I felt a bit disoriented. At first glance, it ...

Thomas Pesquet: A colourful lake at high altitude in the remote eastern reaches of China...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students will participate in a live question-and-answer session with an alumnus astronaut aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 10.

Thomas Pesquet: The moon was passing by the cupola. My next destination? ;)...

The Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane landed at the Kennedy Space Center's orbiter runway on Sunday, May 7, after spending a record 718 days in orbit. This was the fourth flight of the uncrewed, autonomous military...

The company completed a series of hot-fire tests on the preburner design for the AR1, keeping the program on schedule to be flight-ready by 2019. SpaceNews.com

Our ever-changing sun continuously shoots solar material into space. The grandest such events are massive clouds that erupt from the sun, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. These solar storms often come first with s...

Thomas Pesquet: The end of Proxima nears, less than five weeks to go. So much work to do and not enough time fully appreciate the Bahamas blue. The current return date is 2 June, but like everything in spaceflight it...

Our ever-changing sun continuously shoots solar material into space. The grandest such events are massive clouds that erupt from the sun, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs....

Photographer Justin Ng captured a time-lapse of the skies over Mount Bromo in Indonesia during an astrophotography tour on May 6, 2017. He was treated to an Eta Aquarid meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

Imagine another life-form on a distant world conducting the same kind of search for laser light, said Nate Tellis of the University of California, Berkeley. "If we had pointed our telescope at Earth at sort of the distan...

The European XFEL, the biggest X-ray laser in the world, has reached the last major milestone before the official opening in September. The 3.4 km long facility, most of which is located in underground tunnels, has gener...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers has detected two new giant alien worlds circling distant stars. The newly found planets are estimated to be as massive as Saturn and are orbiting M dwarfs beyond the snow ...

Scientists have created computer simulations of events soon after the Big Bang to better understand how stars today are being formed.

The gas giants have always been a mystery to us. Due their dense and swirling clouds, it is impossible to get a good look inside them and determine their true structure. Given their distance from Earth, it is time-consum...

Six months after seeking information about instruments it could fly to the moon, NASA has issued a request for information for commercial systems that could transport payloads there.

The U.S. Air Force held its first "Space Flag" exercise April 17 to 21, a new event designed to hone warfighter's skills at operations, problem solving, and potential conflict in space.

SpaceX and Tesla-founder Elon Musk has made some rather bold promises over the years. In addition to building a fleet of reusable rockets, an Interplanetary Transport System, colonizing Mars, and revolutionizing transpor...

Earth's microbes could contaminate Mars or icy moons such as Jupiter's satellite Europa, interfering with the hunt for life beyond our planet. At the same time, organisms from distant worlds could pose a hazard to life o...

The first up-close look at Pluto was so intriguing that some researchers want to go back and spend a lot more time studying the icy world.