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Boeing and Northrop Grumman submitted "trade studies" to help the Air Force draft GBSD program requirements. SpaceNews.com

The Russian space program has many museums celebrating its space history in Moscow and Baikonur, Kazakhstan (near the Baikonur Cosmodrome), honoring everything from the first people in space to the modern missions on the...

Our sun is surrounded by a deep, million-degree atmosphere that affects everything in the solar system -- but how, precisely, it works is a mystery.

"What the fuck is the Meghalayan?" asked Ben van der Pluijm, a geologist at the University of Michigan. "Whatever the Meghalayan is, we live in it now. Humans have redistributed species around the world! We do what plate...

Boeing confirmed July 21 that there was an "anomaly" during a recent test of the launch abort engines for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle that could delay a key milestone needed for the vehicle to be able c...

PASADENA, Calif. -- "It was barely two hours into Day 1 of AlienCon and 500 years of accepted history and science were already being tossed out. Three thousand people had gathered inside the Civic Auditorium here for a p...

Another successful parachute test for Orion, how we're getting back to the Moon, and an Apollo 11 virtual experience ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA....

Here's a run-through of the trailblazing women who achieved major firsts in space.

SpaceX launched the first of two missions planned for this week on Sunday, July 22, lofting the Telstar 19 Vantage telecom satellite for Telesat using a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceNews.com

The Milky Way galaxy shimmers over a field of yellow flowers at dawn in this photo taken from the village of Monsaraz in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

"New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called "octonions." Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, is finding ...