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It must be lonely traveling out beyond the edge of the solar system.

Two rockets are scheduled to launch within 1 minute of each other tonight (Dec. 22), and you can catch the back-to-back spaceflight action live.

After several months of downtime after Hurricane Maria blew through, the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar has returned to normal operation, providing the highest-resolution images to date of near-Earth asteroid 3200 P...

What can we learn from finding nothing at all? --

Arecibo has provided the highest-resolution images to date of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon....

Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei swaps out a payload card from the TangoLab-1 facility and places into the TangoLab-2 facility....

A 15 million euro ($17.8 million) contract to build one of the five Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) platforms has been awarded by the European Space Agency to a Polish-led consortium - the biggest ...

Satellite operator and hardware provider ViaSat of Carlsbad, California received a $350 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for a mix of tactical radio and satellite equipment. SpaceNews.com

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

Space.com brings you the spaceflight, space science, science fiction and kids' space books you should know about from 2017.

The world's glaciers and Greenland's ice sheet are melting, and the situation in Antarctica is less clear, but scientists generally agree that the continent is losing ice as the planet continues to warm. These vast and l...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: After several months of downtime after Hurricane Maria blew through, the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar has returned to normal operation, providing the highest-res...

"The word quantum in quantum materials means they have properties that cannot be described by classical physics - we have to invoke quantum physics," said Dr Amalia Coldea, a quantum materials researcher at the Universit...

A team of U.S. astronomers studying the star RZ Piscium has found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust, the remains of one or more destroye...

NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Lake Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba, with Reindeer Island visible in the lower-right part of the image....

Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) share some of their favorite Christmas memories in a new holiday video.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Hubble Space Telescope captured what looks like a colorful holiday ornament in space. It's actually an image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas th...

Our year through the lens:a selection of our favourite images for 2017

A Falcon 9 booster with a pre-flown first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California tonight (Dec. 22) at 11:27 p.m. EST, lofting 10 communications satellites for the commercial Iridium Next constellat...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the ...

Webb telescope, or Webb, is NASA's upcoming infrared space observatory, which will launch in 2019. The two photos that compose this image highlight two important achievements Webb had in the latter part of 2017.