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As commercial suborbital vehicles capable of carrying both payloads and people prepare to enter service, NASA officials say they're willing to consider allowing agency-funded researchers to fly on those vehicles.

NASA will host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 4, about the agency's upcoming science mission to explore where Earth's atmosphere meets space.

One of the first images acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in 2018 was this clear nighttime view of the northeastern United States....

The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search for exoplanets. The post What is the Gravitational Microlensing Method? appeared first on Unive...

When the New York Times reported that the Pentagon had had taken part in a partially declassified program at a cost of $22 million to investigate UFOs, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP),...

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

On Jan. 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth.Take a look back in our video here!

There was plenty of science in the movies that hit screens large and small in 2017.

Skywatchers got a glimpse of a spectacular full moon this New Year's Day -- the largest the moon will appear in 2018.

The International Space Station isn't the only spacecraft orbiting the Earth. In fact, it is accompanied by the Hubble Space Telescope, satellites within the Earth Observing System, and more than 1,000 other operational ...

December 6, 2017: Links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing conspira...

At 12:35 a.m. EDT (0535 GMT) this morning (Jan. 3), Earth reached its closest point to the sun in its yearly orbit. But this change in distance won't cause an increase in global temperatures.

Physicist Christiane Heinicke spent 365 days sequestered with five others in a geodesic dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano to test what isolation might do to the psyches of the crew on a Mars... --

The mystery of Jupiter's strangely switching jet stream may have just been solved. The new results could reveal a lot of information about clouds in the atmospheres of planets in our own solar system and those moving thr...

World View, a company offering stratospheric balloon flights for research payloads, sees a bright future ahead for a platform that it argues combines the best attributes of satellites and aircraft, despite a recent testi...

The biggest full moon of 2018 lit up the night sky overnight on Jan. 1 and 2, thrilling skywatchers around the world. See amazing photos of the New Year's Day supermoon Wolf Moon by readers here!

Space Science Image of the Week: A galaxy with a bright head and star-studded tail resembles a skyrocket firework blazing through the sky

Take a look at what's coming up for the European Space Agency this year

SpaceX aims to launch Zuma, a top-secret U.S. government satellite, on Friday night (Jan. 5) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, according to Air Force officials.

The countdown is over... Luciana Vega has blasted off. American Girl launched sales of its 2018 "Girl of the Year," aspiring astronaut Luciana Vega, on Monday, Jan. 1.

NASA astronauts successfully sequenced the DNA of microbes found aboard the International Space Station, marking the first time unknown organisms were sequenced and identified entirely in space.

A team of physicists argues that its strange, spherical fusion reactor could be the way forward for nuclear energy.