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Students from nine school districts in Port Orchard, Washington, will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 1:10 p.m. EST today.

On the eve of the first launch of a reused Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 with a reused first stage, both NASA and SpaceX said they were comfortable with the level of risk involved with the mission. SpaceNews.com

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

NASA has awarded the Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services III (SMASS III) contract to A-P-T Research, Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, for a broad range of services at the agency's Headquarters in Washington, Kenned...

The new decadal survey for Earth science research will likely be unveiled in early January, slightly later than previously planned. SpaceNews.com

An Ariane 5 rocket took off from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana on Tuesday, taking with it four satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation project, Arianespace said.

It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles a swirling snowstorm in a snow globe.

An international team of astronomers has created the largest map of the movements of galaxies within our Supercluster to date. The post New Map Shows the Motion of all the Galaxies in Our Supercluster appeared first on U...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 5 okayed the first part of a satellite-servicing mission Orbital ATK's Space Logistic subsidiary has with Intelsat, saying the servicing vehicle can execute "rendezvous,...

Where do most of the elements essential for life on Earth come from? The answer: inside the furnaces of stars and the explosions that mark the end of some stars' lives.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions. These exceptions are the...

Russia's space agency on Tuesday blamed a failed satellite launch from its new cosmodrome on a programming error, prompting an angry response from the deputy prime minister in charge of space.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a 150-year-old storm larger than Earth, but just how deep into the planet does it go? Using radio-wavelength data collected this ...

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Detecting DNA--or its extraterrestrial equivalent--may be critical technology for future missions in the search for life beyond Earth. NASA scientists have justifiably focused on water because all biology as we know it r...

Mark Hamill steals the show in a master turn by newly-minted STAR WARS auteur Rian Johnson.

Tucked into the details of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that President Trump signed into law Dec. 12 is a long overdue recognition of the first American astronauts who were lost in service to their country...

U.S. astronauts last visited the lunar surface in the 1970s --

The Tokyo-based company ispace has just raised $90 million to help make its moon-exploration dreams come true.

Technology image of the week: Prototype for a 3D-printed satellite camera

SpaceX has delayed its latest grocery run for the International Space Station for at least a day.

NASA has established a new advisory group on behalf of the National Space Council that will represent the expertise, interests and perspectives of non-federal aerospace organizations to the National Space Council.