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Three American astronauts aboard the International Space Station will embark on a trio of spacewalks in October to perform station maintenance. NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the s...

The giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico sustained less damage from Hurricane Maria than originally thought, and may have little effect on plans to transfer its operations, a National Science Foundation official ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely 'Blue Marble' image of our Home Planet during last Fridays (Sept. 22) successful gravity assist swing-by sending the probe hurtling towards ...

Hawaii's land board on Thursday granted a construction permit for a giant telescope on a mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred, a project that has divided the state.

Sensors are being installed today in the International Space Station to detect neutron radiation. The crew is also setting up a botany study, conducting human research and getting ready for next week's spacewalk....

A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying a U.S.-built commercial satellite has had a successful liftoff from Kazakhstan.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles from the Sun (beyond Saturn's orbit). Slightly warmed by the remote Sun, it has alre...

Scientists taking a new look at older data from NASA's longest-operating Mars orbiter have discovered evidence of significant hydration near the Martian equator--a mysterious signature in a region of the Red Planet where...

Despite rising domestic tensions between Russia and the Trump administration, the two nations continue to move forward on shared goals beyond the planet, from the International Space Station to Venus exploration. NASA an...

An international team of researchers has successfully used a supercomputer simulation to recreate the formation of a massive black hole from supersonic gas streams left over from the Big Bang. Their study, published in t...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli speaks at New Scientist Live from the International Space Station, Friday 29 September starting 12:40 GMT (14:40 CEST)

Calling all citizen scientists, geography buffs, fans of the International Space Station and those who love that orbital perspective! CosmoQuest has a brand new project in coordination with NASA and the Astronomical Soci...

This oddly-shaped galactic spectacle is bursting with brand new stars....

Skywatchers may wonder how nebulas get their marvelous colors and shapes, and a team of astronomers used the Very Large Telescope to find out.

Students at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, near Charleston, will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 11:30 a.m. EDT Monday, Oct...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Instagram to share a tantalizing sneak peek of his vision of space colonizationtonight ahead of a much-anticipated presentation at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia.

With winds of 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico Sept. 20....

Scientists analysing the final telemetry sent by Rosetta immediately before it shut down on the surface of the comet last year have reconstructed one last image of its touchdown site.

The aerospace company Lockheed Martin has an ambitious vision for Mars exploration by astronauts. Called Mars Base Camp, the plan includes sleek landers and huge interplanetary ships to carry humans to Mars. See Lockheed...

How long has there been life in the Cosmos? Perhaps some thirteen billion years. Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb discusses the surprising habitability of the early Universe. The image at the top of the page shows a small...

The spaceflight company unveiled a tantalizing design for a reusable, single-stage surface lander called the Mars Ascent/Descent Vehicle (MADV).