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The Falcon Heavy beat United Launch Alliance's Delta 4 in a competition under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. SpaceNews.com

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 5:42 a.m. EDT Friday, June 29, for the launch of its 15th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage will begin on NASA Televisio...

The White House has directed NASA to study the possibility of converting one of more of its field centers into federal labs, revisiting a proposal made nearly 15 years ago. SpaceNews.com

Red nuggets are relics of the first massive galaxies that formed within only one billion years after the Big Bang. While most red nuggets merged with other galaxies over billions of years, a small number remained solitar...

According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, Mars' Medusa Fossae region was created by volcanic activity, a finding which has serious implications for the planet's past habitability. The post Strange Landscape...

Media are invited to Seattle on Thursday, Aug. 9, to preview a seaborne expedition to study microscopic organisms in the dark depths of the sea that play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere...

Parts of Earth's crust are rising very slowly owing to post-glacial rebound, but using GPS, researchers have found that West Antarctica is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world. And, ESA's GOCE gravity mis...

Ordinary, baryonic, matter exists in the vast spaces between galaxies as highly-ionized oxygen gas at temperatures of about 1 million degrees Celsius. To pin down the missing third, the researchers used the radiation ema...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Lake Huron, the second largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. Bound on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Our week through the lens: 18 - 22 June 2018

"The universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island, says Ye Peijian is a 73-year-old aerospace engineer and head of the Chinese lunar exploration program. "If we don't go there now even th...

Friday June 22: NASA Television provides live coverage of launches, spacewalks and other mission events, as well as the latest news briefings, video files, and This Week, NASA X, Earth Views, and SpaceCast Weekly. Most V...

Astronomers have used a pair of galaxies far beyond the Milky Way to test general relativity with unprecedented precision --

All high-resolution images and the underpinning data from Rosetta's pioneering mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are now available in ESA's archives, with the last release including the iconic images of finding ...

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth, potentially threatening a collision. NEOs are tracers of the composition, dynamics and environmental condition...

A report says Lucasfilm is scuttling plans for its Star Wars "anthology" stories.

Google honored the legacy of famed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler with her own Google Doodle today (June 22), which would have been the writer's 71st birthday.

The first spacecraft to demonstrate active space debris-removal technologies -- such as a harpoon, a net and a drag sail -- in orbit has been released from the International Space Station to commence its mission.

Overnight US President Donald Trump announced the establishment of a "Space Force" as a separate force of the US military.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 view over the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America

In this edition, Sentinel-2 takes us over Lake Huron, the second largest of the five Great Lakes of North America