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A new NASA mission, launching today, will ride along with a commercial satellite to investigate the boundary between Earth and space -- a critical zone that changes based on the sun above and terrestrial weather below.

This year, try and catch one of the night sky's most spectacular and accessible shows -- a meteor shower. Here's a guide to what you can expect from the 2018 meteor showers.

Representatives for Effective Space, a U.K. based space technology company, have announced to the press that a deal has been struck between their company and a well-known satellite operator to provide satellite support i...

Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, an international team of astronomers has created the first detailed images of another star's surface. The post This is the Surface of a Giant Star, 350 Times Larger Th...

Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows....

One spacewalk down, two more to go before next weekend. A U.S. and a Japanese astronaut will go on the next spacewalk Jan. 29 followed by two cosmonauts on Feb. 2....

Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series ...

Gen. Holmes on cyber and space vulnerabilities: "It's a continuous game, with the step and the counter step." SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have debated which objects are gas giants like Jupiter, and which are more correctly called brown dwarfs. A new study aims to end that debate. The post Where’s the Line Between Massive Planet and Brown Dwar...

NASA is honoring the seven astronauts killed aboard shuttle Columbia 15 years ago, with a special musical tribute by the son of Israel's first astronaut.

Earth's biodiversity is an assemblage that "has eaten the storms--folded them into its genes--and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady," says E. O. Wilson, the eminent American biologist. A small ...

The devastating 2017 Atlantic hurricane season set records for the number of consecutive hurricanes and overall damage costs. Therefore, it is an appropriate time to reflect on our dependence on forecasters and emergency...

NASA optics experts are well on the way to toppling a barrier that has thwarted scientists from achieving a long-held ambition: building an ultra-stable telescope that locates and images dozens of Earth-like planets beyo...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in December 2017.

Space weather refers to the environmental conditions in space as influenced by solar activity.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in November 2017.

At the January 16 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe, held here at the University of California, Irvine, SETI astronomer Jill Ta...

Something wonderful happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Everything in the universe was created in an instant as an infinitesimally small point of energy: the Big Bang. We know that this event happened, as the universe...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in October 2017.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in September 2017.

Since 1961, the John C. Stennis Space Center has tested rockets that went to the moon and those that will carry humans even farther.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: