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A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft April 2 carrying more than two and a half tons of cargo for the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

ESA's observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in the Dragon cargo vehicle that lifted off...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station soon will receive a delivery of experiments dealing with how the human body, plants and materials behave in space following the 4:30 p.m. EDT launch Monday of a SpaceX co...

It's hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration. To date, a grand total of 562 humans have left the Earth--a trivial fraction compare...

SpaceX is poised Monday to send supplies to astronauts on the International Space Station aboard a rocket booster and a cargo ship that have both flown before.

Imagine trying to see a firefly next to a distant spotlight, where the beams from the spotlight all but drown out the faint glow from the firefly. Add fog, and both lights are dimmed. Is the glow from the firefly still v...

The involvement of dozens of space sector officials in the high-profile 18-day long rubber-stamp political gathering also provided a rare opportunity for updates on various aspects of China's space program and an outline...

Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens --

A used SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch nearly 3 tons of food, supplies and science gear to the International Space Station today (April 2). And before the mission ends, Dragon will bring a glitchy NASA robot home fo...

The space station disintegrated in the atmosphere over the South Pacific --

A review of more than 70 Russian rocket engines manufactured at a factory that used the wrong solder is now complete, according to the Russian state corporation Roscosmos. SpaceNews.com

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good ind...

Thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth.

As Stanley Kubrick's monolithic movie celebrates its half century, special effects gurus, directors and those who worked on the film describe its legacy and impact on science fiction in today's Guardian. Jan Harlan, prod...

"Out-of-this-World" --NASA Ion-Powered Spacecraft Could Streak Through Milky Way At More Than 200,000 MPH The Milky Way Appears to be Swarming With Venus-Like Exoplanets --"May Hold the Secret of Earth's Fate" "Why the C...

The Big Bang is still shrouded in mystery in many respects. Cosmologists use various ways to try and get information about the first moments of our universe. One possibility are cosmic magnetic fields, which were created...

Italian researchers have investigated the chemical composition of NGC 5824, a massive globular cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. Their analysis, based on observational data provided by the Very Large Telescope array, offe...

In this cloudy, winter scene, a bright and fast meteor crosses the night sky near Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes.

Young Amy Mainzer was one of the few children who looked forward to a trip to the dentist. In those pre-internet times, the waiting room was one of the few places she could read about NASA's Voyager missions.

This image, captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714, about 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes (the Herdsman). N...

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station today (April 2) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, hauling more than 5,800 lbs. (2,630 kilograms) of experiments and supplies.

Earth may be the most hospitable place in the universe that we know of, but our planet would never have become such an ideal place to live if it weren't for a series of violent and catastrophic collisions.