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Scientists have helped solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surface of Neptune - the most distant planet in our solar system....

The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun’s chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to... --

A team of international astronomers have just observed the most distant galaxy to date, providing clues to galaxy formation and cosmic evolution The post The Most Distant Galaxy Observed to Date Provides Insight into the...

The agency's next Mars rover will cache samples for return to Earth, but how and when they will be delivered remains undecided --

As the hullabaloo surrounding the Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun swells by the day, a University of Colorado Boulder faculty member says a petroglyph in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon may represent a total eclipse that occu...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.

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

Ronald Dantowitz has been looking forward to Monday's solar eclipse for nearly 40 years.

Paul Bracher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Saint Louis University, and his research team have been awarded a three-year $597,380 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study w...

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.

Remember the Great American Solar Eclipse with these t-shirts featuring cities along the path of totality, from Oregon to South Carolina.

The five teams left in a $30 million race to the moon now have a bit more time to accomplish their missions -- and the chance to win some additional money along the way.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford. ...

"If those civilizations are out there - and we don't know that they are - those that inhabit star systems that lie close to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun will be the most motivated to send...       

The SpaceX Dragon is hauling advanced space research for delivery Wednesday morning to the International Space Station. Two cosmonauts are also gearing up for the seventh station spacewalk this year set to begin Thursday...

While surveying the positions of over a billion stars, ESA's Gaia mission is also measuring their colour, a key diagnostic to study the physical properties of stars. A new image provides a preview of Gaia's first full-co...

NASA's newest astronaut candidates, a diverse dozen women and men, will participate in media interviews and a final news conference before training on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A SpaceX shipment arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, delivering a bonanza of science experiments.

The Dragon cargo ship is filled with more than 6,400 lbs. (2,900 kilograms) of food, supplies and science experiments for the space station's Expedition 52 crew.

With NASA's sample-caching 2020 Mars rover mission just around the corner, the best strategy for hauling Red Planet rock and dirt to Earth is a now a topic of considerable discussion and debate.

The six Apollo moon landing sites are cultural treasures that should be formally protected, a nonprofit group says.