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Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Plan...

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): Our solar system is located in a spiral galaxy composed of billions of stars, the Milky Way. With the naked eye, we can see some 3000 stars in a dark night. However, if Earth would...

At 6:07 today, August 25, LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Louisiana and Washington state, tweeted: "A very exciting @LIGO - VIRGO observing run is drawing to a close." If rumors leaking f...

Tropical storm Harvey has been gaining strength and will likely make landfall as a major hurricane, NASA satellite images revealed.

Finnish company Iceye announced Aug. 23 that it has raised $13 million to further development of a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) cubesats. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded a contract to Golden Svcs, LLC in Kingston, Tennessee, to provide protective services at the agency's Ohio facilities, NASA's Glenn Research Center's Lewis Field in Cleveland and Plum Brook Station in Sa...

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

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to position itself on the correct course for its upcoming Earth flyby. The spacecraft, which is on a two-year outbound journey to aster...

The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known as Dragonfly. The post Dragonfly Proposed to NASA as Daring New Frontiers Mission to Titan appear...

See amazing images of Hurricane Harvey from astronauts aboard the International Space Station and several different satellites.

A group of eight young people with disabilities recently took the ride of a lifetime: a flight on a parabolic airplane, which re-creates the weightless environment of space.

Eight children got to experience weightlessness on a parabolic flight on Aug. 24, 2017 with the help of the European Space Agency and Zero Gravity Corporation.

NASA's biggest, most ambitious missions may cost billions - but they're well worth it, according to a report published Thursday.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August 2017 at 04:06 GMT as the storm approached the US state of Texas....

Composite image of category 2 Hurricane Harvey approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States, at 06:00 UTC on Friday, 25 August 2017....

Sentinel-3A takes Hurricane Harvey's temperature as the storm gains strength and moves towards Texas

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The galaxy, NGC 178 may be small, but it packs quite a punch. Measuring around 40,000 light-years across, its diameter is less than half that of the Milky Way, and it is accordingly cl...

A pair of Expedition 52 astronauts checked out new, smaller exercise gear today. The crew also worked on a variety of human research while a new cosmic ray detector has begun scanning outer space....

Five Space.com staff members traveled to locations around the U.S. to witness the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017. Here are our reactions to this incredible event.

The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster - a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studied for thousands of yea...

Two NASA WB-57F research aircraft successfully tracked the August 21 solar eclipse as part of a NASA project led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to study the solar corona and Mercury's surface.

New data gathered by the Mars Curiosity rover indicates a potential history of hydrothermal activity at Gale Crater on the red planet, broadening the variety of habitable conditions once present there, scientists report ...